Meaning of boy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Bodo (Central Africa)
2. child, boy
3. a nickname for one's son
4. A male child. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
5. A young man.
   countable, uncountable
6. Used to express mild astonishment, elation, or disgust: Oh boy—what a surprise!
7. a male given name
8. A young man
9. A son of any age.
   countable, diminutive, especially, uncountable
10. Informal. A grown man referred to familiarly, jokingly, or as a member of one's set or group:fellow.
11. bellboy; pageboy
12. A son of any age
13. A male human younger than the speaker.
    countable, diminutive, endearing, uncountable
14. the time of being a boy. a happy boyhood; (also adjective) boyhood memories. kindertyd صِبا، سِن الحَداثَه момчешки дни mocidade chlapectví das Knabenalter drengeår παιδική ηλικίαniñez, infancia poisipõlv بچگی poikavuodet enfanceילדות लड़कपन dječaštvo gyermekkor masa kanak-kanak drengsaldur fanciullezza, adolescenza 少年期 소년 시대 (berniuko) vaikystė zēna gadi; zēnība; zēna- masa budak-budak jeugd guttedager, barndom; gutte- wiek chłopięcy هلکتوب mocidade copilărie (a unui băiat) отрочество chlapč...
    also adjective
15. A male human younger than the speaker
16. A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
    countable, derogatory, informal, mildly, sometimes, uncountable
17. a girl's favourite male friend. vriend, kêrel صَديق، رَفيق، خَليل приятел namorado přítel (dívky) der Freund (mandlig) kæreste; ven ερωτικός σύντροφος novio, amigo (kellegi) poiss, kavaler, sõber دوست پسر poikaystävä amiחבר युवा मित्र, लड़का दोस्त dečko a barátja pacar kærasti, góður vinur ragazzo ボーイフレンド 남자 친구 draugas draugs (meitenei/sievietei) teman lelaki vriendkjæreste; god venn sympatia, chłopak هلک ملګری namorado prieten, iubit дружок; возлюбленный priateľ, milý (njen) fant dečko pojkv...
18. A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
19. niño, muchacho.
20. A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly
    countable, uncountable
21. A male child.
22. A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
    countable, uncountable
23. A younger such worker.
    countable, uncountable
24. A son: his youngest boy.
25. Often Offensive A man, especially a young man.
    Often Offensive
26. A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
    countable, historical, offensive, uncountable
27. A male camp follower.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
28. Informal A man socializing in a group of men: a night out with the boys.
    Informal
29. Any non-white male, regardless of age.
    countable, offensive, uncountable
30. Offensive A male servant or employee.
    Offensive
31. A male friend.
    countable, especially, informal, uncountable
32. A male submissive.
    countable, uncountable
33. A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male pet, especially a dog.
    countable, uncountable
34. A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
    countable, historical, uncountable
35. Heroin.
    US, slang, uncountable
36. A male (tree, gene, etc).
    childish, countable, uncountable
37. Any tangible object close to one's person; often used in emphatic forms such as bad boy.
    colloquial, countable, endearing, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Kieran plays football with other boys in his school.”

“The ſtretes of the cite alſo ſhalbe full of yonge boyes and damſelles, playnge vpon the ſtretes.”

“I find I was mistaken in the sex, it is a boy.”

“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy?”

“"He is not quite a baby, Alfred," said Ellen, "though he is only a big stupid boy. We have made him miserable enough. Let us leave him alone."”

“Girls were offered baby dolls, princesses and sexy fashion figures; the boys section had superheroes, building blocks, science kits and dinosaurs.”

“The boy who made headlines when he was photographed hugging an officer during a 2014 protest against police brutality is missing after his family’s SUV plunged 100 feet off a coastal highway in California, officials said Wednesday.”

“Kate is dating a boy named Jim.”

“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.”

“I tried. I tried. But he wouldn't listen. My boy was stubborn. My boy was strong. And he was gonna get himself killed. Now I told him, I told him I did it too. That I was like Hoffman, getting by, and that's what you heard that night: me talking him down, him kicking and screaming until the fight went out of him. He put me up on a pedestal. And I had to show him that I was down in the gutter with the rest of them. Broke my boy. I broke my boy.”

“boys' club”

“"My dear girl, what has he done?" said Mrs. Mallowe, sweetly. It is noticeable that ladies of a certain age call each other "dear girl," just as commissioners of twenty-eight years' standing address their equals in the Civil List as "my boy."”

“It opened up a whole range [of feelings]. Some of them we were prepared for ― like for some women to feel some of the images were anti-feminist […] One woman wrote, "I can see the boys have taught you well." "Macho B.S.," someone else wrote.”

“Do’ſt thou call mee foole boy?”

“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, […]”

“I resolved to continue in the Cave, with my two Servants, my Maid, and a Boy, whom I had brought from France.”

“My Boy Stephen Grauener.”

“They picked out two of the strongest of the Boys (as they call the Men) about the place.”

“The blacks who work on a station or farm are always, like the blacks in the Southern States, called boys.”

“From a domestic point of view the advent of the Chinese was a decided blessing, for, instead of the European ladies of the settlement having to do all their own work, they were able to employ a proper staff of Chinese boys.”

“[In Shanghai,] The register clerk assigns you to a room, and instead of ‘Front!’ he shouts ‘Boy!’”

“He thrust his head into the aisle. "Boy!" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. "What will you have? Beer?"”

“Aborigine Wally... described himself as ‘number one boy’ at the station.”

“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[…]”

“A Hottentot... expects to be called by his name if addressed by any one who knows it; and by those to whom it is not known he expects to be called Hottentot... or boy.”

“Every darky, however old, is a boy.”

“[In Alabama,] Guards still use the term ‘boy’ to refer to Black prisoners.”

“BN: [repeating a catchphrase] I like the boy. MA: [to hostile audience] Hold it, hold it, hold it. Easy. Did you say ‘Roy’ or ‘boy’? BN: ‘I like the boy’. There's nothing wrong with saying that... Hang on, hang on, hang on... I'll change religion, I'll do anything for ya, I don't bloody care... What's wrong with saying that? ‘I like the boy’? MA: Boy... BN: I mean, I like the man. I'm sorry, Muhammad.”

“The next thing I remember, I am walking down the street / I'm feeling all right, I'm with my boys, I'm with my troops, yeah.”

“C'mere, boy! Good boy! Who's a good boy?”

“Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?”

“Wounded... 1 Boy, 1st class, severely.”

“He joined the Navy as a boy second class in 1898.”

“[…] drove by a corner, saw what I thought—no, what I knew—were dealers and asked if they knew where I could get some boy.”

“Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...”

“Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.”

“This boy can really kick!”

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