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As a noun houseboi is

domestic manservant, particularly colonial.

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houseboi

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Noun

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domestic manservant, particularly colonial

* 1922 , Stephen Piero Sergius Rudinger de Rodyenko, Small Me: A Story of Shanghai Life , The James A. McCann Company, 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. ’”

* 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, 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.

* 1992 , Angelika Fremd, The Glass Inferno , University of Queensland Press, ISBN 9780702224225, pages 123–4:

¶ “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.”

* 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, page 222:

For most colonial wives, the houseboi , the domestic servant, was the first real contaact with a native.