Meaning & use
Choreboy
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A boy or young person hired to do simple household or farm chores and errands.
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The innkeeper hired a choreboy to chop firewood and fetch water each morning.
As a young choreboy on the ranch, he learned to muck stalls before sunrise.
A note on using this word
The word is now mostly historical, evoking farms, ranches, and inns of earlier eras before household chores became more automated.
Words with a similar meaning
errand boy
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