| 单词 | busboy |
| 释义 | busboyWord family nounbusbarbusboybus lanebusmanbus passbus shelterbus stopbus Food bus·boy /ˈbʌsbɔɪ/ noun [countableC] American EnglishAmEDLDF a young man whose job is to take away dirty dishes from the tables in a restaurant 餐馆打杂工〔负责收拾碗碟的小伙子〕 Examples from the Corpus busboy• A woman in a Chanel suit squeezes past a busboy and peers into the kitchen.• A busboy kills time by folding napkins.• Each section is staffed by waiters and busboys who serve the plated meals to the passengers.• For upstairs they hired the smallest, lightest busboy they could find.• One of my busboys commutes from a rented house in Fairfield.• The new busboy, Morton, boxed in his spare time. (1900-2000) omnibus “helper in a restaurant” ((19-20 centuries)) (from Latin; → OMNIBUS1) + boy |
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