kitchenman

English

Etymology

From kitchen +‎ -man.

Noun

kitchenman (plural kitchenmen)

1. A man employed in a kitchen.
   • 1810 November 24, The Irish Magazine, or Monthly Asylum for Neglected Biography, pages 552–553:

     Bowmen, Bridgmen, Divers, Swimmers, Placemen, Stewards, Supple Trimmers; Turners, Carters, Leaders, Drivers, Servants, Kitchenmen, and Weavers; […] And many more—but let us ſtop! / And this fond prayer offer up: / May Erin’s ſons of ev’ry caſt, / Be Iriſhmen! from firſt to laſt! / Nor name or creed divide them!

   • 1864, The Ecclesiastic, volume XXVI, London: Joseph Masters […] , page 271:

     The washermen, kitchenmen, and servants were chosen from the serfs of the estates of the house.

   • 1912, Statistical Register, New South Wales. Bureau of Statistics, page 405:

     Hours of work (except for night porters, kitchenmen, kitchenmaids, housemaids), 120 per fortnight; night maids, housemaids, 126 per fortnight; night porters, 272 per 4-weekly period; kitchenmen, kitchenmaids, housemaids, 126 per fortnight.

   • 1914, Reports of Proceedings Before the Boards of Conciliation and the Court of Arbitration, Western Australia. Court of Arbitration, page 148:

     Persons employed in the capacities of kitchenmen, pantrymen, scullerymen, waiters, porters (day and night), yardmen, handymen, oyster openers, waitresses, kitchenmaids, scullerymaids, and pantrymaids, are all provided for in a scale, the minimum of which is £1 and the maximum £1 12s. 6d., which is the wage for the waiter.

   • 1915, The Industrial Arbitration Reports, New South Wales, pages 248–249:

     The last thing which the employers ask is the re-introduction into the award of a clause placed by Mr. Justice Cohen in the first award, by which it was directed that cooks and kitchenmen should mutually help each other. […] The only answer put forward to this was, that the term “kitchenmen” was intended to include pantrymen and certain other workers. This was strongly contradicted, and the probabilities seem to me to be entirely against it; the term “kitchenman” only is used, and I must accept what the agreement says.

   • 1967, Commonwealth Arbitration Reports, page 257:

     Youths at 19 years of age or under employed as kitchenmen shall be paid a weekly wage at the rate of not less than seventy-five per annum of the basic wage and thereafter at the relevant adult rate.

   • 1968 July 10, The Western Australian Industrial Gazette, page 291:

     Kitchenman, pantryman, sculleryman, yardman, handyman, general hand, and unspecified workers [“Male $”:] 4.90 [“Female $”:] —

Coordinate terms

• kitchenmaid