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Definition of Errand boy
1. Noun. A boy who earns money by running errands.
Generic synonyms: Courier, Messenger
Specialized synonyms: Page, Pageboy
Definition of Errand boy
1. Noun. A male employed to run errands. ¹
2. Noun. (management pejorative) Someone nominally in a responsible position who performs relatively menial tasks for a senior manager. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Errand Boy
Literary usage of Errand boy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Were a stranger to meet one of us on the way, he would take him for a messenger
despatched for a physician or midwife, or an errand- boy just escaped from ..."
2. Education for Business by Leverett Samuel Lyon (1922)
"Office clerk Office boy. work Office boy Clerical worker and errand boy Office boy.
Telephone work and mailing Does errands and filing ..."
3. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"... publisher of the Lancaster Gazette, as errand boy, and continued in his service
for seven years, and so long as to partially acquire a knowledge of ..."
4. The Life and Letters of Faraday by Bence Jones (1870)
"CHAPTER I. KARLY LIFE—errand boy AND BOOKBINDER'S APPRENTICE. THE village of
Clapham, in Yorkshire, lies at the foot of Ingleborough, dose to a station of ..."
5. Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society by American Folklore Society (1904)
"The old men told the boy many things, and at last they said : " Now you must go ;
our errand boy will take you back, and the buffalo will follow you. ..."
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