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potboy

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pot·boy  (ptboi)
n. Chiefly British
A boy or man who works in an inn or a public house serving customers and doing chores.

potboy [ˈpɒtˌbɔɪ], potman [ˈpɒtmən]
n pl -boys, -men
(Historical Terms) Chiefly Brit (esp formerly) a youth or man employed at a public house to serve beer, etc.
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Noun1.potboy - a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
employee - a worker who is hired to perform a job


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The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station-houses.
The unaccustomed visitor from outside, naturally assumed everybody here to be prisoners--landlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy, and all.
Then,' said Mr Gregsbury, 'it would be necessary for him to make himself acquainted, from day to day, with newspaper paragraphs on passing events; such as "Mysterious disappearance, and supposed suicide of a potboy," or anything of that sort, upon which I might found a question to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
 
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