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scullion|ˈskʌljən|
Forms: α. 6 squylyon; β. 5 sculȝon, scwlione, Sc. skulȝeoun, 6–7 scullian, skullion, -an, scullen, 6 scolion, (-yon, scoulion, -yon, skolyon, scullyon, schoolyone, scullyan, 7 skullen), 6– scullion.
[Perh. an alteration of F. souillon scullion, due to assimilation to scullery.]
A domestic servant of the lowest rank in a household who performed the menial offices of the kitchen; hence, a person of the lowest order, esp. as an abusive epithet. Now only arch.
αa1533Ld. Berners Huon xxxvii. 118 Squylyons of y⊇ kechyn.
β1483Cath. Angl. 326/1 A Sculȝon (Scwlione A.), calcula, lixa. 1515Barclay Egloges iii. 17 Me thought the scullians like fendes of their lookes Came forth with whittels. 1531Elyot Gov. (1580) 151 The Jewes..made of the Gabaonites, being theyr confederates, their scullyons, and drudges. 1579Louth in Narr. Reform. (Camden) 50 There Cooke in that hyghe court was dressed lyke a schoolyone. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 65 Away you Scullion, you Rampallian, you Fustillirian. 1602― Ham. ii. ii. 616. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 542 Haveloke..having beene first a skullen in the King's Kitchin. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man. i. i, Ay, it's the way with them all, from the scullion to the privy-councillor. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 151 Among the scullions and the kitchen-knaves.
b. attrib., as scullion-boy, scullion-clout, scullion-maid, scullion-work.
1624Bp. R. Montagu Gagg Pref. 18 And those Tararag⁓males, the Decretall Epistles of the Popes *scullen-boyes making.
c1500Rowlis Cursing 121 in Laing Anc. Poet. Scot., With *skulȝeoun clowttis and dressing knyvis.
c1684Roxb. Ball. (1889) VI. 267 Would I have been a *scullian-maid, or a servant of a low degree.
1632Sherwood, A *scullion wench, Souillonne.
1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. 342 Such a one, which is forced to do all manner of *skullion work? 1700C. Nesse Antid. Armin. (1827) 8 If it be but skullion-work to brighten vessels.
c. quasi-adj. Base, mean.
1658[cf. scullion work above]. 1824Byron Def. Transf. i. i. 128 The forester Hunts not the wretched coney, but the boar.., leaving paltry game to petty burghers, who leave once a year Their walls, to fill their household caldrons with Such scullion prey. 1870Emerson Soc. & Sol., Courage Wks. (Bohn) III. 114 We must have a scope as large as Nature's to deal with beast-like men, detect what scullion function is assigned them. |