water boy

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noun
  1. 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.

  2. a person who sees that livestock is supplied with water, as by filling water troughs.

Origin of water boy

1
First recorded in 1630–40

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How to use water boy in a sentence

  • Or how would you like to carry the bats or be the water boy?

  • On his plantation Henson served as water-boy, butler and finally as a field hand, experiencing the usual hardship of the slave.

  • Little Jim wanted to leave school and be a water boy and his father's helper.

    Still Jim | Honor Willsie Morrow
  • 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 Arcadia | Francis Lynde
  • He even holds up the Greek who came luggin' in the fresh towels, and Tony the spring water boy.

    Torchy As A Pa | Sewell Ford