Footboy

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈfÊŠtbɔɪ/

Origin

From foot + boy.

Full definition of footboy

Noun

1. (now historical) A serving boy, attendant, page with similar duties as an adult footman.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.9:Our troopes are now all confounded and disordered, by reason of bag and baggage, or carriages, of lackies, and foot-boies, which because of their masters armes they carry, can never leave them.