scullery.

A small room adjoining a kitchen, traditionally used for washing dishes and other messy household work.

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Words that belong together

• scullery sink
• tiled scullery
• back scullery

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Dirty pans waited beside the deep sink in the scullery.

The cook sent him into the scullery to scrub potatoes.

They turned the old scullery into a laundry room but kept its stone sink.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Especially older British domestic arrangements; unlike a pantry, primarily a workroom rather than food storage. Count noun: sculleries.