scullion
noun (scullions)
Everyday
(old use) A servant in a kitchen who scrubs pots and floors and does the dirtiest jobs. tree →
In the lessons
a low kitchen worker in old stories, often ordered about by the cooks
Examples
- The cooks and scullions ran after the bird. tree →
- The scullion stopped just as he was about to wring the bird's neck. tree →
- He began as an under-scullion and rose to be a head cook. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «scullion» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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