A scullion is a kitchen servant who does the meanest work. The kitchen scullion, a scullion's job, sent to work as a scullion.
It was the lowest post in a great household, below the cook and the kitchen maid, and it meant pots, floors and fires. The scullery is the room, and the two words probably influenced each other. Shakespeare used it as an insult.
1nounscullionA kitchen servant who does the meanest work.
“The scullion scrubbed the greasy pots long after the other servants had gone to bed.”
scullion is a servant.
Probably from Old French souillon, a kitchen drudge, reshaped under the influence of scullery.
Old French
souillon — scullion
Latin
scopa
Middle French
escouillon — a swab, cloth
English, today
scullion
Built from
Either 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
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire