ˈhorse-boy
A boy employed to attend to horses; a stable-boy. (Often contemptuous.)
| 1563 Winȝet Four scoir thre Quest. lxxiii. Wks. 1888 I. 122 Except ȝe will euiry lady in the land to be subdeuit to hir awin cuik or horsboy. 1617 Moryson Itin. ii. 127 Though thereby their state bee no better then horseboyes. 1808 Scott Marm. ii. xxvii, For three long years I bowed my pride, A horse-boy in his train to ride. 1847 Emerson Repr. Men, Napoleon Wks. (Bohn) I. 375 Every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army. |