A male servant employed to do the most menial tasks in a kitchen. Also (derogatory): a servile or insignificant underling. Cf. scullion, n.
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| 释义 | society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > unskilled or doing menial work (11) kitchen knave1440 A male servant employed to do the most menial tasks in a kitchen. Also (derogatory): a servile or insignificant underling. Cf. scullion, n. scullion1483 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… sweep-house1621 a person employed to sweep a gallery or a house, a menial servant. sweep-gallery1705 scrubber1839 One who, or something which scrubs. slushy1953 A ship's cook; spec. as a nickname. Also in more gen. application: a cook; any unskilled kitchen or domestic help. Subcategories:— collectively (1) — Indian (4) |
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