henchboy
词形变化
henchboys
复数
henchboys
别名
hinchboy
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A follower; footman; page; a servant.
古体The smiths exhibited a mounted horseman with head-piece and axe; the carpenters, a group of boys, bearing wands surmounted with bunches of flowers, like that borne by the lord mayor of London's henchboy, in Charles I's time, as shewn in the frontispiece to the first part of my "Lord Mayors' Pageants;" …
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2.
A young henchman
词源
Blend of henchman + boy.
来源:wiktionary