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View synonyms for water boy
water boy
noun
- a person who carries a canteen or bucket of drinking water to those too occupied to fetch it, as to soldiers, laborers, or football players.
- a person who sees that livestock is supplied with water, as by filling water troughs.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of water boy1
First recorded in 1630–40
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Example Sentences
Or how would you like to carry the bats or be the water boy?
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On his plantation Henson served as water-boy, butler and finally as a field hand, experiencing the usual hardship of the slave.
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Little Jim wanted to leave school and be a water boy and his father's helper.
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The water-boy was humped over the horn of his saddle as if he had found a stomach-ache in the breathless gallop.
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He even holds up the Greek who came luggin' in the fresh towels, and Tony the spring water boy.
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