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houseboy
[ hous-boi ]
houseboy
/ ˈ³ó²¹ÊŠ²õËŒ²úɔɪ /
noun
- a male domestic servant
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Example Sentences
It wasn’t “Teahouse of the August Moon,†where he played a Japanese houseboy, which was so strange.
Once in London, however, he had to sleep on Dr Obeta's sofa and says the doctor used him as a houseboy.
Despite the decision not to go ahead with the transplant, the alleged victim gave evidence that he had later been examined by two other unidentified doctors at the home of Dr Obeta who he also accused of making him work as a "houseboy" and not paying him, jurors were told.
Shortly after the opening of the Broad exhibition, the Centre’s production of “Houseboy†by Ferdinand Oyono, directed by Kentridge, premiered at REDCAT.
Based on a 1956 novel, “Houseboy†adopts the intimate form of a young man’s diary to tell of the brutal power imbalances and racial oppression in colonial Cameroon.
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