bumboyn.
/ˈbʌmbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈbəmˌbɔɪ/ 1. A person who performs all kinds of tasks, esp. menial ones; a factotum.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > factotum
both-hands1631
man Fridaya1809
factotum1824
man-of-all-work1830
bottle washer1835
bumboy1907
1907 Republic County (Kansas) Democrat 31 Jan. 1/5 He took a bum boy home..and had him split some kindling and do some other chores around the house.
1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 50 The job you people promised me. Now your bum boy out in the office tells me I can't have it.
1986 W. Ihimaera Matriarch 374 ‘Erina... Be a dear...’ ‘When did your last bumboy die,’ Erina grumbled as she got up.
2015 P. Evans Back of His Head viii. 303 I am..still, in effect, Raymond's abject bumboy, all these years after his death.
2. slang (originally British). derogatory. A young homosexual man, esp. a male prostitute.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male > boy or youth
bardash1550
catamite?1552
Ganymede1558
ingle1592
ningle1602
Ganymedean1603
pathic1605
prostitute1654
love-boy1655
punk1698
chicken1914
tart1935
bumboy1937
mo1968
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 106/2 Bum-boy.
1938 D. Thomas Let. 7 May (1985) 294 A ringed and dainty gesture copied from some famous cosmopolitan bumboy.
1984 M. Amis Money 150 Jerome, the blue-jeaned bumboy with earring and dyed blonde hair, cruised over.
2008 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 22 June (Features section) 23 They gave us abuse all the way to Blackpool, calling us ****ing trannies, and bumboys, and other things too disgusting to repeat.
3. An obsequious person; a sycophant.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer
papelard1340
placeboc1395
fawnerc1440
pickthank1460
adulator?a1475
earwigc1475
curry-favel1515
men-pleaser1526
gnatho1533
upcreeperc1540
claw-back1549
curry-favourer1563
man-pleaser1564
claw-poll1569
please-man1570
sycophant1575
curry-favour1577
capper1587
insinuator1598
clawera1603
scrape-shoe1607
suck-fist1611
courtiera1616
foot lickera1616
fleerera1627
wriggler1631
fawn1635
limberham1689
toad-eater1742
tuft-hunter1755
arse-kisser1766
sleeve-creeper1809
lick-spit1822
lickspittle1825
shoe-licker1826
toady1826
toad1831
toader1842
bootlicker1846
bootlick1849
favour-currier1855
lubricator1872
bum-sucker1877
handshaker1884
suck1900
mbongo1911
sucker-up1911
apple-polisher1918
snurge1933
ass-licker1939
brown-nose1939
brown-noser1942
arse-licker1951
ass-kisser1951
greaser1959
suck-hole1966
suck-up1970
bumboy1984
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1984 Winnipeg Free Press 18 Aug. 6/4 He spent two hours..talking nonsense..while his bum-boy and the local party officials brayed approval of every fatuous statement.
1995 Toronto Life Jan. 43/3 The new Frank diarist, incidentally, is Jeff Wells, a longtime Bate bumboy and self-styled ‘schmuck’.
2008 J. Fellowes Past Imperfect xv. 389 He's just a regular little toady..creeping and crawling like a bumboy round you, to worm and lick and slide his way into your lives.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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