SCULLION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scullion mean? 

• SCULLION (noun)
  The noun SCULLION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SCULLION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCULLION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("scullion" is a kind of...):

retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))

 Context examples 

Good for little else than dish-washing and scullion work.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He sets his kingdom up to the best bidder, like some scullion farrier selling a glandered horse.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had never done any hard manual labour, or scullion labour, in my life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)