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Definition: Scullion |
ScullionNoun1. A kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scullion" was first used: sometime around 1475. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Performs any combination of tasks involved in cleaning ship's galleys, bakery, and butcher shop: Cleans pots and pans, dishes, chopping blocks, and service stations, by hand or using dishwashing machine. Polishes silver chafing dishes and coffee pots. Places washed glasses in rack to prevent breakage. Defrosts and cleans reefers and iceboxes. Cleans and culls vegetables and fruits. Dumps garbage and cleans can. Swabs deck of assigned area. Carries supplies from reefers and storerooms to galleys, pantries, bakery, and butcher shop. Stocks serving stations with dishes and stores. May be designated according to type of work performed as Baker Scullion (water trans.); Butcher Scullion (water trans.); Glass Scullion (water trans.); Silverware Washer (water trans.); Vegetable Scullion (water trans.); or according to area to which assigned as Main-Galley Scullion (water trans.). May give directions to workers and be designated Scullion Chief (water trans.). When work is performed on cargo ship, is usually known as Utility Hand (water trans.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Servant | Maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine,cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman; (worker); bearer, chokra, gyp, hamal, scout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scullion |
| English words defined with "scullion": Cullion ♦ Gallopin ♦ Pot-walloper ♦ Scullionly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scullion": CINDERELLA. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scullion": Scullionly. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But he drank off the hot weak tea which the clumsy scullion, girt with a white apron, poured into his cup. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Scullion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.86% of the time. "Scullion" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.86% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.14% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "scullion" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Scullion | Last name | 130 | 68,067 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scullion | 19 |
scullion timing | 8 |
monmouth scullion | 2 |
monmouth.com scullion | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scullion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njeri i përçmuar (insect, stinker), ndihmës në kuzhinë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слуга в кухнята, мияч на чинии (dishwasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | marmiton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Küchenjunge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπηρέτησ μαγειρείου, άθλιοσ (abject, beastly, beggarly, caitiff, forlorn, miserable, putrid, squalid, unblessed, Unblest, villainous, wretched), λαντζέρησ, αγροίκοσ (boorish, bounder, churl, clownish, curmudgeon, lout, roughneck, rube, rude, rustic, yokel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | konyhalegény. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sguattero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | strulleyder (rinser, washer-up), spinchyraght, spinch (charlady, scrubber, skivvy), scut, 'neen ny juistyn (kitchen maid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ullionscay moça de cozinha, lavador de pratos (dishwasher), ajudante de cozinha (dishwashing machine, galley boy, kitchen knife). (various references) nenorocit (abject, baleful, disastrous, forlorn, grievous, grub, hapless, lame duck, mean, measly, miser, miserable, pilgarlic, rascal, rotten, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, wretch, wretched), bãiat de bucãtãrie, ajutor de bucãtar. (various references) судомойка (dishwasher, kitchen maid, kitchen-maid), поваренок. (various references) sguidilear (a scullion). (various references) sudopera (kitchen sink, sink). (various references) pinche. (various references) kökspojke, diskpojke. (various references) คนครัว. (various references) bulaşıkçı (bottle-washer, dishwasher, pearl diver, steward). (various references) кухарчук, посудомийка. (various references) người rửa bát đĩa (washer-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | escouillon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scullion": scullions. (additional references) | |
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"Scullion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mcguillion, sceolon, scilian, scillion, scoglio, Scollen, sculi, sculpin, skillion, Skyllaion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scullion" (pronounced sku"lyun) |
| 4 | -l y u n | battalion, billion, bullion, civilian, jillion, medallion, million, multibillion, multimillion, octillion, pavilion, pillion, rebellion, scallion, stallion, trillion, vaudevillian, vermilion, Vermillion, zillion. |
| 3 | -y u n | banyan, Canyon, communion, companion, disunion, dominion, grunion, minion, nonunion, onion, opinion, pinion, reunion, union. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cullions. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-l-l-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: collins, cullion, uncoils. | |
-2 letters: clonus, colins, consul, coulis, cousin, cullis, insoul, loculi, nicols, uncoil. | |
-3 letters: cions, clons, coils, coins, colin, conus, culls, icons, incus, linos, lions, locus, loins, louis, nicol, nills, noils, nulls, oculi, scion, scull, sonic, sulci, uncos. | |
-4 letters: cion, clon, coil, coin, cols, coni, cons, cull, icon, ills, ions, lino, lins, lion, loci, loin, nill, nils, noil, nous, null, oils, onus, sill, silo, soil, soli, soul, unci, unco. | |
-5 letters: cis, col, con, cos, ill, ins, ion, lin, lis, nil, nos, nus, oil, ons, sic, sin, sol, son, sou, sun, uns. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-l-l-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: collusion, scullions. | |
+2 letters: callousing, collusions, unsocially. | |
+3 letters: allocutions, calmodulins, councillors, counselling. | |
+4 letters: calculations, calumniously, conclusively, convulsively, counsellings, cupellations, gallinaceous, hallucinoses, hallucinosis, licentiously, malocclusion, nucleophiles, punchinellos, solifluction, subsonically, undecillions. | |
+5 letters: carillonneurs, ceruloplasmin, cocounselling, duodecillions, equipollences, flocculations, hallucinators, hallucinogens, illusionistic, incredulously, malocclusions, miscellaneous, noncellulosic, nucleoplasmic, punctiliously, solifluctions, suballocation, subcollection, unmaliciously, vulcanologies, vulcanologist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 75 6C 6C 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. ..- .-.. .-.. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c u l l i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0075 006C 006C 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369877878758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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