"houseboi" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1922, Stephen Piero Sergius Rudinger de Rodyenko, Small Me: A Story of Shanghai Life, The James A. McCann Company, page 36:",
          "text": "“‘Dear Chief: The bearer of this letter, Chow Lan Chu, my houseboi, is a great thief and steals whatever he can lay his hands on. […]’”",
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          "ref": "1969, Louis Johnson, “The Way to Train a Dog” (poem), reprinted in Louis Johnson (poet), Terry Sturm (editor), Selected Poems, Victoria University Press (2000), page 101",
          "text": "[…] While still a pup, / You put him in a sack, then beat it / With a stick. When howls and yelpings die, / You send the houseboi out to set him free."
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          "ref": "1992, Angelika Fremd, The Glass Inferno, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, pages 123–4:",
          "text": "[…] he seduces his houseboi’s wife, his Mary, and fires the houseboi. […] ¶ “You’ve got no authority over my private life. What about your wife, she’s a bit on the dark side, isn't she?” ¶ “I didn’t steal my wife from my houseboi. And we’re legally married.”",
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          "ref": "2007, Anne Dickson-Waiko, “Colonial Enclaves and Domestic Spaces in British New Guinea”, in Kate Darian-Smith et al., editors, Britishness abroad: transnational movements and imperial cultures, Melbourne University Press, →ISBN, page 222:",
          "text": "For most colonial wives, the houseboi, the domestic servant, was the first real contact with a native.",
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        "A domestic manservant, particularly colonial."
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          "word": "houseboy"
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