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Image:Boy from the Taylor Family.jpeg|thumb|Painting of a boy.

English

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Etymology

Probably , with cognates in Frisian and Dutch. There is also speculation that the word would originally stem from baby talk. 1.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bɔɪ/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-boy.ogg
  • :


Noun

  1. A young male, usually a child or adolescent.
  2. : The boys were playing kickball in the mud.
  3. : Steve is a boy of 16.
  4. A male servant, regardless of age, especially in a colonial context and in numerous compounds. (Compare French garçon; also adopted as such in various others languages, such as Dutch)
  5. : When the dipenda (independence movement) in Belgian Congo turned violent, the white colonisators' often materially privileged black domestic boys were mistrusted and often abused as collaborators
  6. A man of any age, used as a friendly diminutive, or of a man who is merely younger than the speaker.
  7. : Whatever else you say about him, the boy can play.
  8. : 1977: I like the boy. — Australian entertainer w:Bert Newton|Bert Newton, to w:Mohammed Ali|Mohammed Ali at the 1977 Logie Awards, famously unaware of how insulting this is under the US usage above 2
  9. An adult male, particularly when used by straight women or gay men to refer to someone considered attractive.
  10. Male (usually adult) friends.
  11. : I’m going out for a few drinks with the boys.
  12. : Me and my boy grew up together in Southside.
  13. In the Context of A proud parent's son, regardless of age.
  14. : That's my boy.
  15. In the Context of A caring owner's pet or working animal, regardless of age.
  16. : Here, boys, heel; yes, Bobby, show the puppies how, good boy!
  17. {{US|offensive|pejorative|archaic}} A male African-American of any age.


Translations

  • Dutch: nikker
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic: negri (often considered offensive)
  • Catalan: home#Catalan|home
  • Chinese traditional/simplified: 男生, 男生 (nán shēng)
  • Danish: {{t+|da|knægt|c}}
  • Dutch: jongens , kerel
  • French: gars (informal)
  • German: {{t+|de|Junge|m}}
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|strákur|m}}
  • Indonesian: {{t-|id|pria|xs=Indonesian}}, {{t-|id|laki-laki|xs=Indonesian}}

Derived terms


Related terms

Synonyms


Interjection

  1. Exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  2. : Boy, that was close!
  3. : Boy, that tastes good!


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Category:1000 English basic words

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Dutch

Noun

{{nl-noun|g=m|pl=boys|dim=boytje}}

  1. A male domestic servant, especially colored in a colony.


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Italian

Noun

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  1. A male ballet dancer.
  2. A bellboy (in a hotel).


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Turkish

Noun

  1. size
  2. stature


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Boy \Boy\, v. t.
To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of
boys acting women's parts on the stage.
[1913 Webster]

I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. --Shak.
[1913 Webster] Boyar
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Boy \Boy\, n. [Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube,
Icel. bofi rouge.]
1. A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad;
hence, a son.
[1913 Webster]

My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. --Sir
W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

2. In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of
a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race;
-- considered derogatory by those so called, and now
seldom used. [derog.]

He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty,
and spoke of importing boys from Capetown. --Frances
Macnab.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet boy
n 1: 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" [syn: male child] [ant: {female
child}, female child]
2: a friendly informal reference to a grown man; "he likes to
play golf with the boys"
3: a male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge";
"his boy is taller than he is" [syn: son] [ant: daughter,
daughter]
4: (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black man; "get out of my
way, boy"
Moby Dictionary
American Indian , Amerind , Australian aborigine , Bushman , Caucasian ,
Indian , Malayan , Mister Charley , Mongolian , Negrillo , Negrito ,
Negro , Oriental , Red Indian , WASP , black , black man , blackfellow ,
bloke , brown man , bub , bubba , buck , bud , buddy , burrhead ,
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 , jigaboo , jungle bunny , lad , laddie ,
lord-in-waiting , man , manchild , manservant , master , muchacho ,
nigger , niggra , ofay , paleface , pup , puppy , pygmy , ragamuffin ,
red man , redskin , schoolboy , slant-eye , small fry , son , sonny ,
sonny boy , spade , street arab , stripling , tad , the Man , urchin ,
valet , valet de chambre , whelp , whippersnapper , white , white man ,
whitey , yellow man , young man , youth


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