 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
boy
noun
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"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boy \Boy\, noun [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.
My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. --Sir
W. Scott.
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.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boy \Boy\, verb (used with an object)
To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of
boys acting women's parts on the stage.
I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "boy":
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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