Water boy

Today, the name is given to those who work on the sidelines at sports events to provide water for athletes.

The phrase has also been used to describe diminutive figures who serve another team or person in the business and political worlds, in a slightly derogatory manner (ex.

On cotton plantations, just as in modern manual harvesting or picking, the water carrier was in constant demand.

This is documented in the folk song "Waterboy", "Water boy, where are you hidin'?

The title character in Gunga Din (poem 1892, film 1939) is a water boy.