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Recent Examples of houseboy
The pilot featured Charles Levin as Coco, a gay houseboy.
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Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
The houseboy kept bringing food and water.
—Gillian Telling, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
His mother moved the family to Malden, W.Va., where Washington worked as a salt packer, coal miner and houseboy.
—Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
Collins is playing Skip, the houseboy in the estate where the play takes place.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
The older man then offers Casey a thankless live-in position as houseboy and party plaything, basically stripping him of every last shred of dignity.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2022
Between this new doc, the premiere of Porsha Williams’s new spinoff, the new season of RHOC, Nicki Minaj hosting the RHOP reunion, the RHOM trailer, and the finale of Winter House, the Institute is busier than Andy Cohen’s houseboy during a holiday weekend.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
Police arrested the only one left alive on the property — a 19-year-old houseboy.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
Naomi Campbell was Scarlett O’Hara, Manolo Blahnik was a gardener or barefoot field hand, and John Galliano was a houseboy, photographed scrubbing the floor!
—André Leon Talley, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
The houseboy kept bringing food and water.
—Gillian Telling, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
His mother moved the family to Malden, W.Va., where Washington worked as a salt packer, coal miner and houseboy.
—Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
Collins is playing Skip, the houseboy in the estate where the play takes place.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
The older man then offers Casey a thankless live-in position as houseboy and party plaything, basically stripping him of every last shred of dignity.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2022
Between this new doc, the premiere of Porsha Williams’s new spinoff, the new season of RHOC, Nicki Minaj hosting the RHOP reunion, the RHOM trailer, and the finale of Winter House, the Institute is busier than Andy Cohen’s houseboy during a holiday weekend.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
Police arrested the only one left alive on the property — a 19-year-old houseboy.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
Naomi Campbell was Scarlett O’Hara, Manolo Blahnik was a gardener or barefoot field hand, and John Galliano was a houseboy, photographed scrubbing the floor!
—André Leon Talley, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for houseboy
Noun
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All stateroom and suite categories have butler service, although additional services (like free laundry, pressing, and dry-cleaning) are offered in higher-tier suite categories.—
Scott Laird,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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The pantrymen also did anything that the butlers did not have time to do.—
John Wrory Ficklin,
Time,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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He is also said to have been a water boy and manservant to an Anderson family member who was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War.—
John Wrory Ficklin,
Time,
11 Feb. 2026
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The dialogue is witty and the characters are memorable, particularly Boris Karloff as hulking manservant Morgan.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The 25-year-old earned around $28 an hour as a night houseman on the evening shift at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Feb. 2025
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Wilson Medina works two jobs: as a houseman at the Sheraton Universal Hotel and as a mechanic.—
Helen Li,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2023
Noun
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That made kid gloves the perfect choice for a servant handling fine silverware, where even a fingerprint could spoil the dinner presentation.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2026
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Making the Fed the servant of the White House would hobble one of the few institutions capable of limiting the overreach of a power-mad president.—
Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Daily price increases ranged from $10 for long-term parking to $35 for valet in 2021; by 2023, those rates rose to between $12 and $45.—
Chase Jordan
February 6,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Feb. 2026
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And since the hotel is spread out vertically with many rooms perched on a hill, there are always multiple members of the valet team standing by to take you anywhere on property via golf cart.—
Lizbeth Scordo,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The event can host up to 25 guests (not including the bride and groom) and ceremonies must happen before the park opens, which can present some challenges.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Jihae and Stephen wore comfortable hiking clothes for the trek, before changing into their wedding attire — a white lace off-the-shoulder gown for the bride, and a classic dark suit for the groom — at the ceremony site.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But Season Four takes viewers to lower-class settings like the bars where scullery maids and footmen relax, the markets where house staff shop, even the secret drawing rooms where servants eat their breakfast and discuss town gossip.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
2 Feb. 2026
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Lady Gun’s footman Alfie sighs in relief when his taxing employer leaves for the evening.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The fee was around the average for such arrangements, and far more than Elliott made in her occasional work as a housekeeper.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Even the housekeepers know what to look out for.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Houseboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/houseboy. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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