| 单词 | bottle boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottle boy bottle boy n. a boy who assists with or collects bottles; spec. (a) a boy employed at a public house, hotel, etc., or in a wine cellar; (b) an assistant at a doctor's or pharmacist's dispensary (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > apothecary or pharmacist > [noun] > apothecary's assistant lungs1612 bottle boy1770 1770 ‘Orphanotrophian’ Fortunate Blue-coat Boy II. viii. 76 I have served in all occupations, from bottle boy, to what you see me. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. i. 10 He..fulfilled the ideal of a bottle-boy. 1873 C. Redford Mary Trelawny i. 8 To shake in your shoes at the sight of a man who twenty years ago was a bottle-boy. 1912 R. A. Freeman Myst. 31, New Inn i. 2 At that moment the bottle-boy opened the door and, thrusting in his head, uttered the one word: ‘Gentleman.’ 1984 P. Townshend in D. Wholey Courage to Change 31 I was the bottle boy in my dad's band... I stood by the beer crates and handed the guys their beer and put the empty ones away. < as lemmas |
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