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Definition of Shop boy
1. Noun. A young male shop assistant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shop Boy
Literary usage of Shop boy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunlight and Shadow: Or, Gleanings from My Life Work : Comprising Personal by John Bartholomew Gough (1884)
"... Office Boy — The shop boy — Power of Circumstances in shaping Character — Man,
Arbiter of his own Fortune — Knotty Problems — Dr. Wm. M. Taylor's Advice ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in Scotland by William Gillespie Dickson, John Skelton (1864)
"The shop-boy was seised. It was found that the sword and cravat belonged to ...
He was intimate with the shop-boy; and had been in the habit of putting up ..."
3. The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South Africa by Alfred Aylward (1878)
"SURFACE DIGGINGS — THE SHOP-BOY ARISTOCRACY — AN OUTRAGE — PEACE-MAKING—A GAY
AND FESTIVE SCENE—" SIC TRANSIT." THE " Caledonian Gold Fields" were from the ..."
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