Fly-boy

[f. FLY sb.¹ and ¹ + BOY.]

  1.  Printing = FLY sb.¹ 6 b.

1841.  [see FLY sb.¹ 6 b].

1871.  Amer. Encycl. Print., Fly-Boy.—A boy who takes off the sheet from the tympan as the pressman turns it up.

  2.  A boy who sells fly-papers.

1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour (1861), III. 28. I’m the only reg’lar fly-boy.