scullion
see also: Scullion
Noun
Scullion
Proper noun
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see also: Scullion
Noun
scullion (plural scullions)
- A servant of the lower classes.
- 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], OCLC 959921544 ↗, page 52 ↗:
- They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.
- (obsolete, derogatory) A low, base person. [1400s]
scullion (plural scullions)
- Alternative form of scallion
Scullion
Proper noun
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