Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stockboy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: stock-boy
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young stockman raising livestock.

noun

A young stocker, an employee at a store stocking shelves; an entry-level retail employee.

Example Sentences

"He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, "Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […]""
"He had graduated from Cregier High School two months earlier and quickly landed a job as a stockboy at Order from Horder, a stationery store chain."
"Excuse me, but is this huge application necessary? Listing job experience — what experience is crucial for being a stock boy?"
"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."
"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."

Etymology

From stock + boy.

Inflected Forms

stockboys (plural) stock boy (alternative) stock-boy (alternative)

Questions

What does stockboy mean?: A young stockman raising livestock.
Where does stockboy come from?: From stock + boy.

How to pronounce stockboy

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