water boy

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   an assistant who supplies drinking water

   Synonymswaterer

   Broaderassistant

Questions about water boy

What does water boy mean?

water boy means "an assistant who supplies drinking water".

What is another word for water boy?

Close synonyms include waterer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water boy a common word?

water boy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.