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noun a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing)
originEither from Middle French escouillon (“a swab, cloth”), diminutive of escouve (“broom, twig”) from Latin scopa, or an alteration of Old French souillon (“scullion”) by influence of scullery.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0