scullery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.

   1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Opposite the signal the line on one side is shut in by a high blank wall; on the other side are houses, but coming below the butt-end of a scullery the signal does not happen to be visible from any road or from any window.

2. 2
   noun

   a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen

Inherited from Middle English squylerie, from Anglo-Norman squillerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella.

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