milkboy

English

Etymology

milk +‎ boy

Noun

milkboy (plural milkboys)

  1. A boy who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses; a young milkman.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      It was on a morning that the milkboy came singing to the door, shrilly to the door his tuneless song, and went singing away, having measured out the milk, from his can, to the jug, with all his usual liberality.
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