henchboy

词形变化

henchboys 复数 henchboys

别名

hinchboy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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;" …

  2. 2.

    A young henchman

词源

Blend of henchman + boy.

来源:wiktionary