cabin boy

noun

1. a boy employed as a servant for the officers and passengers on a ship.

cabin boy

noun

1. a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship

Word History and Origins

Origin of cabin boy¹

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

“I look like a runaway cabin boy,” she thought.

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Pudge had been a cabin boy in his youth and, coincidentally, had served on a ship captained by the famed Admiral Percival Racine Ashton himself.

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“That’s funny. Uncle Pudge is always talking about cannibals. Claims he met some once, when he was only a cabin boy. Something to do with a shipwreck.”

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The 1884 death of a cabin boy in a lifeboat was no accident.

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When the storm that sank the ship surged again, a young cabin boy was left stranded.

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