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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
houseboy
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Kenny the houseboy arrived with the poultice makings, but one look at me convinced him it was useless.
▪ Nobody even gets deported again, no broken windows, no more kicking houseboys.
▪ People said she went to bed with her houseboy.
▪ She was thinking of houseboys in a saffron uniform she'd design herself.
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houseboy

n. A male domestic servant.

Wikipedia
Houseboy

A houseboy is typically a male domestic worker or personal assistant who performs cleaning and personal chores. The term has history within British colonialism, military contexts, as well as in the Gay community.

Houseboy (novel)

Houseboy is a novel in the form of a diary written by Ferdinand Oyono, first published in 1956 by in French as Une vie de boy (Paris: René Julliard) and translated into English in 1966 by John Reed for Heinemann's African Writers Series.

Usage examples of "houseboy".

A houseboy or something in a turtleneck and whipcord trousers answered the door of a gray stone house on the edge of the nearby town and showed me into a room paneled in fruitwood with potted plants on the built-in shelves.

Odo became houseboy to the villa of Lucius Falco, and Galba Brassidias, forty rings now jangling from the waist chain of his armor, burst from the base of the watchtower to receive his reward from Rome.

Chinese and Malay amahs, Koepanger houseboys or Japanese house staff watched over the young children or pushed babies in high-wheeled English prams.

Within a month, local chauffeurs, cooks and houseboys had swelled the ranks and Pissy Johnson, Cunning-Spider and Atherton, as well as two guys from School House who could speak Sotho, were roped in to teach on Saturday nights.

A houseboy brought fragrant jasmine tea and biscuits, placing them on the rosewood coffee table in front of the pale blue silk settee.

Sullen past his early teens, with that buried-anger feel you got from some serfs, always quarreling with the other houseboys.

Two minutes later the Japanese houseboy came out of the house with two toy poodles straining on the leash and yapping, turned down the drive and walked off around the bend.