potboy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A boy employed in a plant nursery to tap clay pots with a stick for their ringing sound, indicating whether the plant required watering.
    — GC&HTJ 1985 volume 198 page 17
  2. A boy employed as waiter to serve (pots of) drinks, as in a tavern.
    — I put on my kitchen potboy disguise and rode down to B-1 in an elevator that smelled like chicken soup, barbecue sauce, and Jack Daniel's.
  3. A boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses. UK
    — (“Hoo-roa,” ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, “put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.”)

词形变化

potboys plural pot boy alternative pot-boy alternative

词汇关系

相关词
pot-girl potman busboy

词源

From pot + boy.
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