what's a pantry boy?

[phil meein]

 

[Billy]

The lowest type of house servant. You would start as a pantry boy and hope to work up to a butler. A pantry is a food storage area.

 

[Colleen]

> The lowest type of house servant. You would start as a pantry boy and hope
> to work up to a butler. A pantry is a food storage area.
But I think Mozza means it as some sort of *rent boy*- a play on the words pantry boy.

 

[ahem]

To call someone a jumped up pantry boy is to suggest they are acting above their station.