boy
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
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lifestyle
military
politics
sexuality
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
From Middle English boy /boye (“servant, commoner, knave, boy”), from Old English *bōia (“boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōjō, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô (“younger brother, young male relation”), from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“brother, close male relation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-, *bʰāt- (“father, elder brother, brother”).
Cognate with Scots boy (“boy”), West Frisian boai (“boy”), Dutch boi (“boy”), Low German Boi (“boy”), and probably to the Old English proper name Bōia. Also related to West Flemish boe (“brother”), Norwegian dialectal boa (“brother”), Dutch boef (“rogue, knave”), Bavarian Bua (“young boy, lad”), German Bube ("boy; knave; jack"; > English bub), Icelandic bófi (“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”), Lombard bagaj. See also bully.
Inflected forms:
form: boys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boyz
pos: noun
tags: plural
pronunciation-spelling
form: boi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A male child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: A young man.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Kate is dating a boy named Jim.
gloss: A son of any age.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
diminutive
especially
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A male human younger than the speaker.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
diminutive
endearing
uncountable
gloss: A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
derogatory
informal
mildly
sometimes
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Do’ſt thou call mee foole boy?
gloss: A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: 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, […]
gloss: A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: I resolved to continue in the Cave, with my two Servants, my Maid, and a Boy, whom I had brought from France.
gloss: A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
historical
offensive
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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[…]
gloss: Any non-white male, regardless of age.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
offensive
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A male friend.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
especially
informal
uncountable
examples: hanging with my boys
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.
gloss: A male submissive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male pet, especially a dog.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: C'mere, boy! Good boy! Who's a good boy?
Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?
gloss: A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Wounded... 1 Boy, 1st class, severely.
He joined the Navy as a boy second class in 1898.
gloss: Heroin.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: […] 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.
gloss: A male (tree, gene, etc).
pos: noun
tags: childish
countable
often
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Any tangible object close to one's person; often used in emphatic forms such as bad boy.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
endearing
uncountable
examples: This boy can really kick!
gloss: Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
pos: intj
examples: Boy, that was close!
Boy, that tastes good!
Boy, I wish I could go to Canada!
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
Taylor Swift has entered her engagement era. And, as befitting an artist whose image has always evolved to reflect the shifts in her music — not to mention one who has never been afraid to share her most Hallmark-seeped romantic fantasies — boy, does she have a new look to go with her new status.
gloss: To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.
Synonyms: manservant
bhoy
boy
boykin
boyo
callant
chav
feely-omi
little boy
man child
manling
page
pillicock
sapling
shaveling
sonny
springald
stripling
yob
younker
youth
Antonyms: girl
man
Derived words: aceboy
all-boys
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
alphabet boy
altar boy
antiboy
area boy
attaboy
atta boy
baby boy
backroom boy
bad-boy
bad boy
bag boy
bagboy
ball boy
banjee boy
barboy
Barnardo's boy
barra boy
barrow-boy
barrow boy
Barry boy
bat boy
batboy
batty boy
B-boy
b-boy
beachboy
bellboy
bell boy
bendy-boy
best boy
big boy
big-boy pants
big boy pants
big boys
bimboy
bioboy
birl
birthday boy
bitchboy
black boy
blackboy
blood boy
blue-eyed boy
boat boy
boi
bonfire boy
book-boy
bootboy
boot boy
boot-boy
boss boy
bovver boy
box boy
boy aquarium
boy band
boy-bishop
boy bishop
boy bits
boybortion
boychild
boyclit
boycock
boy crazy
boy-crazy
boy-cunt
boy cunt
boy-cut
boydem
boydick
boydom
boydyke
boyeen
boyey
boy friend
boyfriend
boy-friend
boyfu
boyfucker
boy-girl
boy group
boy hole
boyhood
boy howdy
boy in blue
boy in buttons
boy in the boat
boyish
boyism
boyitis
boy juice
boykin
boykind
boykisser
boyleg
boylesque
boyless
boylet
boylike
boylove
boylover
boyloving
boyly
boy-meets-girl
boy meets girl
boymode
boyness
boy next door
boy-next-door
boyo
boy off
boy oh boy
boyology
boy or girl paradox
boy parts
boy preggers
boypreggers
boy problems
boyproof
boy pussy
boy racer
boyremoval
boyremove
boys and girls
boys and their toys
boy scout
Boy Scout
boy scoutish
boy-short
boyshorts
boy shorts
boy-shorts
boyslash
boys of summer
boys will be boys
boy talk
boytjie
boy toy
boytoy
boy-toy
boywife
boy wonder
boyzilian
breaker boy
brotherboy
broth of a boy
bubble boy
bubble boy disease
bubble boy syndrome
buddy boy
bug boy
bully-boy
bully boy
bum boy
bumboy
bunnyboy
busboy
bus boy
bushboy
business boy
bussy
butcher boy
cabana boy
cabin boy
cabin-boy
cake boy
call boy
call-boy
callboy
camboy
candyboy
cash boy
catboy
caveboy
CC boy
char-boy
charity boy
Chelsea boy
cherry boy
chickboy
chick boy
Chinaboy
choir boy
choirboy
choreboy
cisboy
cis boy
city boy
climbing-boy
climbing boy
collegeboy
college boy
conyo boy
copy boy
copyboy
corner boy
counterboy
cover boy
cowboy
cuntboy
daddy's boy
damber
dayboy
day boy
delivery boy
demiboy
dolly-boy
donkey-boy
doorboy
doughboy
dough boy
drawboy
dressing-boy
Dutch boy
Earthboy
e-boy
everyboy
every good boy deserves favor
every good boy deserves favour
every good boy deserves food
every good boy deserves fudge
every good boy deserves fun
every good boy does fine
exercise boy
fagboy
fag boy
fag-boy
fair-haired boy
fanboy
fangboy
farmboy
farm boy
fboy
femboy
fireboy
fishboy
fisherboy
fly-boy
flyboy
footboy
frat boy
friend boy
friendboy
fuck-boy
fuckboy
fuck boy
funny boy
garden boy
gayboy
gay boy
gay tyke boy
gentleboy
girl-boy
girls and boys
glory boy
glowboy
God boy
golden boy
golden shower boy
good boy
good boys deserve fudge always
good ol' boy
good old boy
good ole boy
good old boy network
gooseboy
goshwowboyoboy
grandboy
grease boy
Greenboy
Green Mountain boy
haut-boy
hawk boy
head boy
henchboy
herdboy
herdsboy
hod boy
homeboy
Honeyboy
hoo boy
hoo-boy
hopper boy
horse boy
house-boy
house boy
houseboy
Indian boys and girls
It boy
jack-boy
jack boy
Jewboy
jobs for the boys
jolly boy
kanto boy
kept boy
keyboy
kitchen-boy
knife-boy
ladyboy
lady boy
lardboy
laughing boy
lawnboy
lazyboy
leatherboy
lesboy
liftboy
link boy
little boy
little boys room
loblolly boy
lover boy
loverboy
lowboy
magical boy
mama's boy
mamma's boy
man and boy
man-boy
man boy
manboy
M and M boys
merboy
messboy
milkboy
momma's boy
mommy's boy
moneyboy
monkey boy
monster boy
mummy's boy
muscle boy
my boy
nancy boy
nancyboy
nerdboy
newsboy
newspaperboy
niggerboy
nigger-boy
no-no boy
Oakboy
office boy
oh boy
old boy
old-boy network
old boy network
our boy
page boy
pageboy
paperboy
party boy
Peck's bad boy
peg boy
Percy boy
Perry boy
pick-me boy
pieboy
pinboy
pissboy
pizza boy
playboy
ploughboy
plowboy
po' boy
po' boy bread
police boy
ponyboy
pony boy
pool boy
poor boy
poor little rich boy
post boy
postboy
poster boy
potboy
pot boy
prat boy
pretty boy
principal boy
pull-up boy
puppyboy
pussy boy
pussyboy
pussy-boy
quarterboy
ranchboy
Ratboy
rent boy
roaring boy
rudeboy
rude boy
rugby boy
saga boy
sailor boy
salesboy
sandboy
schoolboy
scooterboy
sea boy
send a boy to do a man's job
separate the men from the boys
shag-boy
shamba boy
shanty boy
shipboy
shoeshine boy
shoot the messenger boy
shopboy
showboy
sideboy
since Adam was a boy
since Adam was an oakum boy
since Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard
since God was a boy
slaveboy
slave boy
slicky boy
Small Party of Good Boys
snowboy
soap boy
soft boy
softboy
sonny boy
soulboy
soy boy
sphincter boy
Spudboy
stable boy
stable-boy
stableboy
starboy
Steelboy
stick boy
stockboy
stock-boy
stock boy
suck-boy
suckboy
superboy
tallboy
t-boy
teaboy
teddy boy
Teddy boy
telegraph boy
the boys
tomboy
tom boy
tommy boy
ton-up boy
top boy
toy-boy
toyboy
toy boy
traffic boy
trainboy
transboy
trans boy
trash boy
turnboy
unboy
valley boy
water boy
wet boy
when Adam was an oakum boy
when Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard
whipping boy
Whiteboy
whiteboy
white boy
white boy wasted
who's a good boy
who's a pretty boy then
wide boy
wolf boy
wonderboy
wrenboy
ya boy
Yahoo boy
yahoo-yahoo boy
Yellow Boy
yellow boy
young boy
your boy
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: jong boy
lang: Basque
word: morroi
lang: Bulgarian
word: слуга́
roman: slugá
lang: Catalan
word: minyó
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 男僕 /男仆
roman: nánpú
lang: Dutch
word: boy
lang: Dutch
word: huisboy
lang: Finnish
word: poika
lang: French
word: garçon
lang: French
word: boy
lang: German
word: Knappe
lang: German
word: Boy
lang: Greek
word: αγόρι
roman: agóri
lang: Hebrew
word: נַעַר
roman: ná'ar
lang: Hungarian
word: szolga
lang: Irish
word: buachaill
lang: Italian
word: ragazzo
lang: Japanese
word: ボーイ
roman: bōi
lang: Lao
word: ໂບຍ
roman: bōi
lang: Lao
word: ບ່າວໃຊ້
roman: bāo sai
lang: Latin
word: puer
lang: Latin
word: servus
lang: Latvian
word: puisis
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tjenestegutt
lang: Iranian Persian
word: نُوْکَر
roman: nowkar
lang: Iranian Persian
word: ریدَک
roman: ridak
lang: Portuguese
word: criado
lang: Russian
word: слуга́
roman: slugá
lang: Russian
word: лаке́й
roman: lakéj
lang: Russian
word: ма́льчик на побегу́шках
roman: málʹčik na pobegúškax
lang: Scots
word: lad
lang: Scots
word: laddie
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gille
lang: Telugu
word: సేవకుడు
roman: sēvakuḍu
lang: Telugu
word: కూలివాడు
roman: kūlivāḍu
lang: Telugu
word: పనివాడు
roman: panivāḍu
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اوشاق
roman: uşak
lang: Ukrainian
word: козачо́к
roman: kozačók
lang: Zazaki
word: desterma
lang: Basque
word: beltz
lang: Dutch
word: nikker
lang: Hungarian
word: fekete
lang: Icelandic
word: negri
lang: Italian
word: negro
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: negergutt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: neger
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: nigger
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: negergut
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: neger
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: nigger
lang: Russian
word: черноко́жий
roman: černokóžij
lang: Basque
word: mutil
lang: Basque
word: motel
lang: Catalan
word: home
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 男生
roman: nánshēng
lang: Czech
word: chlapec
lang: Danish
word: knægt
lang: Dutch
word: jongen
lang: Dutch
word: kerel
lang: Esperanto
word: ulo
lang: Finnish
word: poika
lang: French
word: gars
lang: German
word: Bursche
lang: German
word: Bursch
lang: German
word: Junge
lang: German
word: Kerl
lang: Greek
word: αγόρι
roman: agóri
lang: Icelandic
word: strákur
lang: Indonesian
word: pria
lang: Indonesian
word: laki-laki
lang: Irish
word: buachaill
lang: Italian
word: ragazzo
lang: Malay
word: lelaki
lang: Neapolitan
word: compare
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gutt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: gut
lang: Portuguese
word: rapaz
lang: Portuguese
word: moço
lang: Romanian
word: băiat
lang: Russian
word: мужчи́на
roman: mužčína
lang: Inari-Sami
word: kandâ
lang: Inari-Sami
word: pärni
lang: Scots
word: lad
lang: Scots
word: laddie
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: balach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gille
lang: Sicilian
word: picciottu
lang: Slovak
word: chlapec
lang: Spanish
word: chico
lang: Spanish
word: muchacho
lang: Swedish
word: kille
lang: Swedish
word: grabb
lang: Telugu
word: కుర్రవాడు
roman: kurravāḍu
lang: Telugu
word: అబ్బాయి
roman: abbāyi
lang: Telugu
word: మగవాడు
roman: magavāḍu
lang: Telugu
word: కుఱ్ఱవాడు
roman: kuṟṟavāḍu
lang: Tongan
word: tamasi'i
lang: Ukrainian
word: хло́пець
roman: xlópecʹ
lang: Finnish
word: poika
lang: Greek
word: αγόρι
roman: agóri
lang: Lithuanian
word: šuo
lang: Lithuanian
word: gerutis
lang: Portuguese
word: garotão
lang: Ukrainian
word: хло́пчик
roman: xlópčyk