scullion

See also: Scullion

English

Etymology 1

Either from Middle French escouillon (“a swab, cloth”), diminutive of escouve (“broom, twig”) from Latin scopa, or an alteration of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French souillon (“scullion”) by influence of scullery.

Noun

scullion (plural scullions)

1. A servant of the lower classes.
   • 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 52:

     They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.

2. (obsolete, derogatory) A low, base person. [1400s]

Etymology 2

Noun

scullion (plural scullions)

1. Alternative form of scallion

Anagrams

• Cullison, cullions