water boy
- 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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Origin of water boy
First recorded in 1630–40
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You brought my water-boy back with you last night, didn't you, Mr. Ballard?
The King of ArcadiaFrancis Lynde
From boss to water-boy we were failures all; so we understood each other.
The PrecipiceElia Wilkinson Peattie
I'll help pass a law making it illegal for Hans Wagner to hang around a ball park except as water-boy.
At Good Old SiwashGeorge Fitch
On his plantation Henson served as water-boy, butler and finally as a field hand, experiencing the usual hardship of the slave.
The water-boy was humped over the horn of his saddle as if he had found a stomach-ache in the breathless gallop.
The King of ArcadiaFrancis Lynde