Definition of Messenger boy

1. Noun. A boy who earns money by running errands.

Exact synonyms: Errand Boy
Generic synonyms: Courier, Messenger
Specialized synonyms: Page, Pageboy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Messenger Boy

messaging
messaline
messalines
messan
messans
messed
messed-up
messed-upness
messed up
messeigneurs
messelite
messenger
messenger-like RNA
messenger RNA
messenger bag
messenger boy (current term)
messenger pigeon
messengered
messengering
messengers
messenian
messenians
messer
messers
messes
messet
messets
messiahless
messiahlike
messiahs

Literary usage of Messenger boy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Telegraph and Telephone Companies: Including by Sidney Walter Jones (1916)
"Delivery to messenger boy—not delivery to company.— A delivery of a message to one of the company's messenger boys, written on one of its blanks, ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"So they send a messenger-boy with a taxi to bring me home. ... The messenger boy rubbed his eyes and looked up sleepily when the young man shook his ..."

3. The Century (1902)
"Easy," said the messenger- boy, "for I was armed wid me wad and me compass, ... Further impressions of the messenger-boy were checked for the moment by the ..."

4. The Child Labor Bulletin by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) (1914)
"So you want to be a messenger boy, and have a slouch on and be bad complected and "a knowin' one" with a cough? NED (Laughing) No, not all of that: but I ..."

5. Transactions of the Antiseptic Club by Albert Abrams (1895)
"Word was 'received from the president, by means of a messenger-boy, that, owing to an attack of cerebral congestion superinduced by his attempts to read one ..."

6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1912)
"The plaintiff did not know that he no longer was a messenger boy. lie did not wear a uniform or distinctive cap, either as a messenger boy or as a clerk. ..."

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