Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A servant employed to do menial tasks in a kitchen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial service in the kitchen or scullery.
- noun A low, disreputable, mean fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A scallion.
- noun A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Servant of lowerclass .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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March 1789 the Times reported, in brief, oblique installments, that a scullion from the royal kitchens had been caught in flagrante delicto with
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006
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Agia smiled at that, but I called the scullion again and gave her an orichalk to bring a folding screen.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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A scullion is a grasshopper gymnasium haycock hedgehog servant 80 81
Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8 Lewis M. Terman
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Strange to say, this scullion was able to write, for a letter is extant from him to Sir Konrad, engaging to open the window immediately above the steep precipice, which on that side was deemed a sufficient protection to the castle, and to fasten a rope ladder by which to ascend the crags.
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The scullion brought the word in the night, and it was known that next day the berries would come in.
A CURIOUS FRAGMENT 2010
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I had never done any hard manual labour, or scullion labour, in my life.
Chapter 4 2010
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Warden, the young wife of John Van Warden, clad in rags, with marred and scarred and toil-calloused hands, bending over the campfire and doing scullion work-she, Vesta, who had been born to the purple to greatest baronage of wealth the world has ever known.
Page 4 2010
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Good for little else than dish-washing and scullion work.
Chapter 3 2010
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A cook slumped in a chair, with his fingers caught in the collar of the scullion who lay at his feet.
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All this was learned from the gossip of a palace scullion, who slept each night in the slave pen.
A CURIOUS FRAGMENT 2010
jinglebelljosie commented on the word scullion
also, a low contemptible person (archaic)
August 23, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word scullion
"Away you scullion! you rampallion! you fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe.
Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i. ii. Line 67.
September 24, 2009