Houseboi vs Butler - What's the difference?
houseboi | butler |
domestic manservant, particularly colonial
* 1922 , Stephen Piero Sergius Rudinger de Rodyenko, Small Me: A Story of Shanghai Life , The James A. McCann Company,
* 1969 , Louis Johnson, “The Way to Train a Dog” (poem), reprinted in Louis Johnson (poet), Terry Sturm (editor), Selected Poems , Victoria University Press (2000), ISBN 978-0-86473-350-4,
* 1992 , Angelika Fremd, The Glass Inferno , University of Queensland Press, ISBN 9780702224225, pages 123–4:
* 2007 , Anne Dickson-Waiko, “Colonial Enclaves and Domestic Spaces in British New Guinea”, in Kate Darian-Smith et al. (editors), Britishness abroad: transnational movements and imperial cultures , Melbourne University Press, ISBN 9780522853926,
A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
* 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
*:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
A valet, a male personal attendant.
As a noun houseboi
is domestic manservant, particularly colonial.As a proper noun butler is
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(s)page 36:
- “‘Dear Chief: The bearer of this letter, Chow Lan Chu, my houseboi , is a great thief and steals whatever he can lay his hands on. ’”
page 101:
- While still a pup, / You put him in a sack, then beat it / With a stick. When howls and yelpings die, / You send the houseboi out to set him free.
- ¶ “You’ve got no authority over my private life. What about your wife, she’s a bit on the dark side, isn't she?” ¶ “I didn’t steal my wife from my ' houseboi . And we’re legally married.”
page 222:
- For most colonial wives, the houseboi , the domestic servant, was the first real contaact with a native.