What does BOY mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. male child, boynoun

    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"

  2. boynoun

    a friendly informal reference to a grown man

    "he likes to play golf with the boys"

  3. son, boynoun

    a male human offspring

    "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is"

Wiktionary

  1. boynoun

    A young male human.

  2. boynoun

    A man of any age, used as a friendly diminutive, or of a man who is merely younger than the speaker.

    Whatever else you say about him, the boy can play.

  3. boynoun

    A male servant.

    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.

  4. boynoun

    A non-white slave or labourer; a male African-American of any age.

  5. boynoun

    A lower-class or disreputable man; a worthless person.

  6. boynoun

    An adult male, particularly when used by straight women or gay men to refer to someone considered attractive.

  7. boynoun

    Male (usually adult) friend; mainly used in the plural: boys.

  8. boynoun

    A proud parent's son, regardless of age.

    That's my boy.

  9. boynoun

    A caring owner's pet or working animal, regardless of age.

    Here, boys, heel; yes, Bobby, show the puppies how, good boy!

  10. boyverb

    To use the word boy to refer to someone.

    "Don't boy me!"

  11. boyinterjection

    Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. BOYnoun

    Etymology: bub, Germ. the etymology is not agreed on.

    Speak thou, boy;
    Perhaps thy childishness will move him more
    Than can our reasons. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind,
    Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind:
    The nurse’s legends are for truths receiv’d,
    And the man dreams but what the boy believ’d. Dryden.

    Men of worth and parts will not easily admit the familiarity of boys, who yet need the care of a tutor. John Locke.

    The pale boy senator yet tingling stands,
    And holds his breeches close with both his hands. Alexander Pope.

  2. To Boyverb

    To act apishly, or like a boy.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Anthony
    Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
    Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness,
    I’ th’ posture of a whore. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

Wikipedia

  1. Boy

    A boy is a young male human. The term is commonly used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is described as a man.

ChatGPT

  1. boy

    A boy is a young male child or teenager who has not yet reached adulthood. Boys typically exhibit characteristics and behaviors associated with masculinity, although these may vary depending on cultural norms and individual experiences.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Boynoun

    a male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son

  2. Boyverb

    to act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage

Wikidata

  1. Boy

    Boy is the debut album from Irish rock band U2, released on October 20, 1980. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the album received generally positive reviews. Common themes among the album's songs are the thoughts and frustrations of adolescence. The album included the band's first UK hit single, "I Will Follow". Boy's release was followed by U2's first tour of continental Europe and the US.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Boy

    boy, n. a male child: a lad: a young man generally, used for 'man' in Ireland and elsewhere: (Shak.) a camp-follower: (obs.) knave: a native servant in South India, China, a male negro slave or native labourer in the South Seas.—v.t. to play the boy.—n. Boy′hood.—adj. Boy′ish.—adv. Boy′ishly.—n. Boy′ishness.—Boy's love, a popular name for southernwood; Boy's play, trifling. [M. E. boi, boy; Fris. boi; Dut. boef, Ger. bube.]

Rap Dictionary

  1. boynoun

    Friend, possibly short for homeboy. That's my boy.

  2. boynoun

    Racist term used by white masters to address a slave. Boy is a racist white word -- Dr. Dre (movie: Who's The Man)

  3. boynoun

    Heroin (Dope)

Editors Contribution

  1. boy

    A male human being.

    Boys and girls are beautiful children.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BOY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Boy is ranked #25902 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Boy surname appeared 949 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Boy.

    68.8% or 653 total occurrences were White.
    12% or 114 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    6.6% or 63 total occurrences were Asian.
    6% or 57 total occurrences were Black.
    5.2% or 50 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    1.2% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BOY' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #800

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BOY' in Written Corpus Frequency: #542

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BOY' in Nouns Frequency: #164

Anagrams for BOY »

  1. yob

  2. byo

  3. BYO

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of BOY in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of BOY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of BOY in a Sentence

  1. Kelly Dodd:

    This is Jennifer she/her,' I don't get this. You're either a boy or a girl, OK? you're born a girl or a boy.

  2. Don McLean:

    The America now is not the America I started out in, and it's not the America that I was in before I started out … The America that I remember in the 1950s when I was growing up and was a young boy and teenager — that's the America I knew and the value system I knew.

  3. Adib Zalkapli:

    It looks very likely that Najib will face the full force of the law, just last week nobody would have thought that this posh boarding school boy would be rear ended by his old political headmaster.

  4. Kim Phillips-Knope:

    Kids have a sense of their gender identity between the ages of three and five, so about the time that kids have language, they can start to share with us whether they’re a boy or a girl—usually those are the only things that they will identify as, because those are the only options we’ve given them.

  5. My Chemical Romance:

    Sing it out. Boy, you've got to see what tomorrow brings. Sing it out. Girl, you've got to be what tomorrow needs. For every time that they want to count you out, use your voice every single time you open up your mouth.

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