Meaning of good boy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An obedient male dog, child, or someone who behaves like one, even when deemed inappropriate.
2. A demeaning term of address to a male.
   humorous

Examples

“Oh you're such a good boy, not reporting the crime because you didn't want to hurt anyone.”

“Perhaps now he’d had his lesson. Perhaps now he’d be a good boy! Again a Fugitive After Felonious Asault. So they said, and thought, and hoped—never dreaming that “John O’Malley” was giving a song and dance to a 14-year-old junior-high-schooler in an East Kirk St. roller skating rink!”

“When he was 13, his mother gave him a big goat’s-milk cheese and sent him trudging far over the hills to a church school to study for the priesthood, and she admonished him to be a good boy.”

“The moment passed, and she packed him firmly off with cheerful, conventional, headmistressy remarks about being a good boy, and next term coming soon.”

“English is scandalously lacking in politically and linguistically correct antonyms of this sort. The Queen can create the Duchess of Cambridge, so surely I can create the much-needed expressions "cisgress" (be a good boy), "cisvestite" (bloke wearing trousers), "cisaction" (no deal), and "cisom" (something that isn't a lintel). Anyone who doesn't disagree is a transsy.”

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