scullery

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman squillerie, from Old French escuelerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskʌləɹi/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

scullery (plural sculleries)

1. (archaic) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

Derived terms

• scullery girl, scullery maid, sculleryman

Related terms

• scour, washery

Translations

room, next to a kitchen

• Bulgarian: черна кухня f (černa kuhnja)
• Danish: bryggers n, grovkøkken n
• Dutch: bijkeuken (nl) f, spoelkeuken (nl) f, waskeuken (nl) f
• Finnish: kodinhoitohuone (fi), apukeittiö
• French: arrière-cuisine (fr) f, souillarde (fr) f
• German: Spülküche f, Spülkammer f (dated), Scheuerbank f (archaic), Sudelküche f (archaic)
• Russian: судомо́йня (ru) f (sudomójnja)
• Spanish: trascocina f
• Turkish: bulaşıkhâne (tr)

See also

• backhouse (sometimes synonymous)
• washhouse