scullery

noun

scul·​lery ˈskə-lə-rē 

ˈskəl-rē

plural sculleries

: a room for cleaning and storing dishes and cooking utensils and for doing messy kitchen work

Examples of scullery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Photo : Carter Watkins/SkyCam There’s also a scullery. —Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024

Meanwhile most of the cooking takes place in the adjacent black-lacquered scullery, where everything from catering prep to heating up Dino nuggets goes down. —Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024

There’s also a separate scullery and a mud room that doesn’t leave the four-legged residents without a bit of luxury. —Mark David, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2024

Walk-in pantries have well exceeded their original purpose of housing shelf-stable goods and have become working pantries—a multi-purpose storage and back kitchen (also commonly called a scullery or galley kitchen). —Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Middle English squilerie, sculerie department of household in charge of dishes, from Anglo-French esquilerie, from escuele, eskel bowl, from Latin scutella drinking bowl — more at scuttle entry 5

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

scullery

noun

scul·​lery ˈskəl-(ə-)rē 

plural sculleries

: a room for cleaning and storing dishes and utensils, washing vegetables, and similar work