Potboy

Quick meaning: Potboy is a noun meaning A boy employed in a plant nursery to tap clay pots with a stick for their ringing sound, indicating whether the plant required watering.

Meaning

A boy employed in a plant nursery to tap clay pots with a stick for their ringing sound, indicating whether the plant required watering.

More Meanings

1. A boy employed as waiter to serve (pots of) drinks, as in a tavern.
2. (British) A boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses.

Example Sentences

GC&HTJ 1985 volume 198 page 17

(“Hoo-roa,” ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, “put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.”)

I put on my kitchen potboy disguise and rode down to B-1 in an elevator that smelled like chicken soup, barbecue sauce, and Jack Daniel's.

Word Forms

• potboys
• pot boy
• pot-boy

Synonyms for potboy

Depending on context, synonyms include potman.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include potman, pipkin, boughpot, potmaker, peepot, puki.

Related Dictionary Tools