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# scullion

noun (scullions)

«scullion» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

(old use) A servant in a kitchen who scrubs pots and floors and does the dirtiest jobs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/#m1)

### In the lessons

a low kitchen worker in old stories, often ordered about by the cooks

### Examples

- The cooks and scullions ran after the bird. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/#x1)
- The scullion stopped just as he was about to wring the bird's neck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/#x2)
- He began as an under-scullion and rose to be a head cook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «scullion» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«scullion» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/scullion.html) on Mova free.