About The Word Boy

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Boy

Boy Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Boy?
[n] offensive term for Black man; "get out of my way boy"
[n] a friendly informal reference to a grown man; "he likes to play golf with the boys" [n] a youthful male person; "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform" [n] a male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is" Synonyms | Synonyms for Boy: male child | son Related Terms | Find terms related to Boy: American Indian | Amerind | Australian aborigine | black | black man | blackfellow | bloke | brown man | bub | bubba | buck | bud | buddy | burrhead | Bushman | Caucasian | chauffeur | coachman | colored person | colt | coon | cub | darky | driver | equerry | fellow | fledgling | gamin | gardener | gee | gent | gentleman | gillie | goody | gook | guy | he | hobbledehoy | honky | houseboy | houseman | Indian | jigaboo | jungle bunny | lad | laddie | lord-in-waiting | Malayan | man | manchild | manservant | master | Mister Charley | Mongolian | muchacho | Negrillo | Negrito | Negro | nigger | niggra | ofay | Oriental | paleface | pup | puppy | pygmy | ragamuffin | Red Indian | red man | redskin | schoolboy | slant-eye | small fry | son | sonny | sonny boy | spade | street arab | stripling | tad | the Man | urchin | valet | valet de chambre | WASP | whelp | whippersnapper | white | white man | whitey | yellow man | young man | youth See Also | adult male | altar boy | ball boy | bat boy | boy scout | broth of a boy | broth of a man | coon | cub | Esau | farm boy | Fauntleroy | jigaboo | Jnr | Jr | Junior | lad | laddie | Little Lord Fauntleroy | male | male offspring | male person | mama's boy | mamma's boy | man | man-child | mother's boy | nigger | nigra | one of the boys | ploughboy | plowboy | schoolboy | shop boy | sonny | sonny boy | spade Boy In Webster's Dictionary \Boy\, n. [Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube,
Icel. bofi rouge.]
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence,
a son.
My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. --Sir W.
Scott.
Note: Boy is often used as a term of comradeship, as in
college, or in the army or navy. In the plural used
colloquially of members of an associaton, fraternity,
or party.
{Boy bishop}, a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in
old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other
insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies
in which the bishop usually officiated.
{The Old Boy}, the Devil. [Slang]
{Yellow boys}, guineas. [Slang, Eng.]
{Boy's love}, a popular English name of Southernwood
({Artemisia abrotonum}); -- called also {lad's love}.
{Boy's play}, childish amusements; anything trifling.
\Boy\, v. t. To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. --Shak. \Boy\, n. In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race. He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty, and spoke of importing boys from Capetown. --Frances Macnab. |
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