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A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: room
Inherited from Middle English squylerie, from Anglo-Norman squillerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
черна кухня
(černa kuhnja)
— room, next to a kitchen
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Danish:
bryggers
— room, next to a kitchen
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Danish:
grovkøkken
— room, next to a kitchen
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Dutch:
bijkeuken
— room, next to a kitchen
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Dutch:
spoelkeuken
— room, next to a kitchen
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Dutch:
waskeuken
— room, next to a kitchen
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Finnish:
kodinhoitohuone
— room, next to a kitchen
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Finnish:
apukeittiö
— room, next to a kitchen
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French:
arrière-cuisine
— room, next to a kitchen
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French:
souillarde
— room, next to a kitchen
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German:
Spülküche
— room, next to a kitchen
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German:
Spülkammer
— room, next to a kitchen
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German:
Scheuerbank
— room, next to a kitchen
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German:
Sudelküche
— room, next to a kitchen
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Russian:
судомо́йня
(sudomójnja)
— room, next to a kitchen
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Spanish:
trascocina
— room, next to a kitchen
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Turkish:
bulaşıkhâne
— room, next to a kitchen