Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A servant for the kitchen; a cook's boy; a scullion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete An underservant in the kitchen; a scullion, or cook's errand boy.

Etymologies

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French galopin. See gallop (intransitive verb).

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