shopboy

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shopboy

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From shop + boy.

noun shopboys

A boy employed in a shop. One figure after another emerged from the room behind, and at each step Walter Maynard felt a cold shudder steal over him; and then he started and coloured, lest his agitation should have been observed; but the shopboy was too used to such scenes to heed them.

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"shopboy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/shopboy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"shopboy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/shopboy.

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@misc{shopboy_2026,
  title = {shopboy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shopboy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}