Associations to the word «Potboy»

Wiktionary

POTBOY, noun. A boy employed as waiter to serve (pots of) drinks, as in a tavern.
POTBOY, noun. (British) a boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses.

Dictionary definition

POTBOY, noun. A worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope