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water boy

noun

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.

First recorded in 1630–40

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.

The water-boy was humped over the horn of his saddle as if he had found a stomach-ache in the breathless gallop.

He even holds up the Greek who came luggin' in the fresh towels, and Tony the spring water boy.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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