kanto boy
kanto boy · kanto boys
An office boyAn office boy.
Meaning
1 senses(Philippines, slang)An office boy.
Origin
Originally from Japanese 官庁 (kanchō, “government office”) + boy, borrowed in during WW2 acOriginally from Japanese 官庁 (kanchō, “government office”) + boy, borrowed in during WW2 according to Potet (2016), but the former eventually got replaced with Tagalog kanto (“corner, especially of two streets”).
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Forms
plural: kanto boys| Singular | kanto boy |
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