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Word entry · 8 letters

scullion

Best crossword clue

"Kitchen servant"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈskʌl.i.ən/Part of speech nounSorted cillnosuStarts with SEnds with N1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing)

Word origin

Either from Middle French escouillon (“a swab, cloth”), diminutive of escouve (“broom, twig”) from Latin scopa, or an alteration of Old French souillon (“scullion”) by influence of scullery.

Used in a sentence

  • They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.
  • "How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."
  • Away, you scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian!

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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