errand boy


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errand boy

n
(Professions) (in Britain, esp formerly) a boy employed by a shopkeeper to deliver goods and run other errands
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Noun1.errand boy - a boy who earns money by running errandserrand boy - a boy who earns money by running errands
courier, messenger - a person who carries a message
pageboy, page - a boy who is employed to run errands
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Translations
kurir

errand boy

nLaufbursche m, → Laufjunge m
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errand boy

nfattorino
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References in classic literature ?
I'm errand boy to this establishment," said Laurie, taking up his cap.
"Indeed!" thought Porthos, casting a glance at the three hungry clerks-for the errand boy, as might be expected, was not admitted to the honors of the magisterial table.
Tomarong became a person of interest after it was found that Cabating was driver and errand boy of Tomarong.
Police in Katsina State have arrested a twenty-year-old kidnapper's errand boy, Aliyu Musa of Chediya village in Kankara LGA.
He noted that in view of the challenges facing the state, Bayelsa State cannot afford to have what he described as an establishment errand boy as governor.
Edward Carranza, director of the CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) regional police, said the policemen involved appeared to have also had a hand in the summary execution of a police errand boy, who was earlier tagged in the ambush of lawyer Edilberto Golla Jr.
ERRAND BOY Wiper MPs Mbui, Mr Charles Nguna (Mwingi West), Mr Patrick Makau (Mavoko), Mr Enoch Wambua (Kitui senator) and other have on several occasions demanded that Prof Kibwana resigns from the party and seeks fresh mandate on another outfit.
Prempeh, also known as Napo, in a statement delivered at a press conference last Thursday in Accra, to the effect that Seidu Yakubu, one of the kidnappers of the two Canadian girls in Kumasi, is connected to Napo as an errand boy.
1850: Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of Lipton's grocery chain, who went from errand boy to millionaire by the age of 30, was born in Glasgow.
ON THIS DAY 1850: Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of Lipton's grocery chain, who went from errand boy to millionaire by the age of 30, was born in Glasgow.
you will always be an errand boy and a media terrorist," he said.