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potboy
/ ˈpɒtmən; ˈpɒtˌbɔɪ /
noun
- (esp formerly) a youth or man employed at a public house to serve beer, etc
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One is making some very significant motions to the potboy at the “Ram and Radish,” and, lo!
There is not a potboy in the vicinity who is not, to a greater or less extent, a dramatic character.
"They mostly does," said the potboy, not without some feeling of pride in the immunities of his sex.
So the housemaid keeps company with the potboy without consulting her own people.'
His prediction was quite accurate, for I had to tell him, after not many days, of the potboy who shot at the queen.
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