pantryman

[ pan-tree-muhn ]

noun

, plural pan·try·men.

1. a person who works in or has charge of a pantry, as aboard ship or in a hospital.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pantryman¹

First recorded in 1555–65; pantry + -man

Example Sentences

He was uneasy in his borrowed clothes—he had surrendered his own garments to a pantryman who had volunteered to dry them.

From Project Gutenberg

If the customers complains that the fork got on it a piece Bismarck herring, that is from the pantryman a Schuld.

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When the gaoler reproved him for his tricks, he would call him the hangmans pantryman, and general storekeeper of sin.

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It was in a swell hotel run by an Englishman and Billy was installed as pantryman.

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