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A male child.countableuncountable
- Kieran plays football with other boys in his school.
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A young man.broadlycountableinformal
- Kate is dating a boy named Jim.
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A son of any age.broadlycountablediminutive
- Low as that tide has ebbed with me, / It still reflects to memory’s eye / The hour, my brave, my only boy, / Fell by the side of great Dundee.
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A male human younger than the speaker.broadlycountablediminutive
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A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).broadlycountablederogatory
- boys' club
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A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.broadlycountableobsolete
- Do’ſt thou call mee foole boy?
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A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularlybroadlycountableuncountable
- He allowed his ‘boy’ - an overfed young negro from the coast - to treat the white men, under his very eyes, with provoking insolence.
- “Why does he go out and pinch all his dogs in person? He’s an administrator, isn’t he? Wouldn’t he hire a boy or something?” “We call them ‘staff,’” Roger replies, […]
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A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee; A younger such worker.broadlycountableuncountable
- I resolved to continue in the Cave, with my two Servants, my Maid, and a Boy, whom I had brought from France.
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A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee; A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.broadlycountablehistorical
- My Boy Stephen Grauener.
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A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee; A male camp follower.broadlycountableobsolete
- If any water be rough and boysterous, or the chanell verye broade, it manye times drowneth the carriages and the boyes and nowe and then slouthfull and lyther souldiours.
- Godes plud kil the boyes and the lugyge, Tis the arrants peece of knauery[…]
syn. manservant · bhoy · boy · boykin · boyo · callant · chav · feely-omi · little boy · man child · manling · page
ant. girl · man