stockboy

stockboy

See also: stock-boy and stock boy

English

Alternative forms

• stock boy
• stock-boy

Etymology

stock +‎ boy

Noun

stockboy (plural stockboys)

1. A young stockman.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 85,

     He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, "Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […] " (cf. stockman sense 1)

   • 2009 April 19, Allen Salkin, “He’s the Man Who Sets the Table”, in New York Times‎:

     When an aunt who was an actress helped him find a job in the William Morris mailroom, where would-be agents traditionally start, the salary was not enough to support him, so he took a second job working as a stockboy at a Macy’s in New Jersey.

   • 2013, Arthur Danto, What Art Is, New Haven: Yale University Press, Chapter 1, p. 36,

     A marvelous photograph by Fred McDarrah shows Andy [Warhol] standing among his boxes, like a stock boy in the stockroom, his pasty face looking out at us.