Potboy
[pɔtbɔi]
Definition
(noun.) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores.
Checker: Victoria--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.
Inputed by Edna
Examples
- Policeman seen to smile to potboy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The potboy has gone to fetch a carpenter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The unaccustomed visitor from outside, naturally assumed everybody here to be prisoners--landlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy, and all. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Typed by Denis