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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”). See also bully." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A young male. \nKate is dating a boy named Jim.\n1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, 35:\nBye or boye: Bostio.\n1535, Bible (Coverdale), Zechariah, Chapter VIII, Verse 5:\nThe stretes of the citie shalbe full of yonge boyes and damselles...\n1711 March 7, Jonathan Swift, Journal, line 208:\nI find I was mistaken in the sex, 'tis a boy.\n1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold, Canto II, xxiii, 72:\nAh! happy years! once more who would not be a boy?", "submean": [ "(particularly) A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from infants or adults.\n1876, Frances Eliza Millett Notley, The Kiddle-a-Wink, \"A Tale of Love\", page 169:\n\"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.\"" ] }, { "mean": "(diminutive) A son of any age.\n1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, , and A Constable and Co., , →OCLC:My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee." }, { "mean": "(endearing, diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave. \nc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Dost thou call me fool, boy?" }, { "mean": "(now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:\n1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 211:He allowed his ‘boy’ - an overfed young negro from the coast - to treat the white men, under his very eyes, with provoking insolence.\n1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, i, 37:\n‘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.", "submean": [ "A younger such worker.\n1721, Penelope Aubin, The Life of Madam de Beaumount, ii, 36:\nI resolved to continue in the Cave, with my two Servants, my Maid, and a Boy, whom I had brought from France.", "(historical or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.\n1625, W. Hawkins in Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Vol. I, iii, vii, 211:\nMy Boy Stephen Grauener.\n1834, Edward Markham, New Zealand or Recollections of It, 72:\nThey picked out two of the strongest of the Boys (as they call the Men) about the place.\n1876, Ebenezer Thorne, The Queen of the Colonies, or, Queensland as I Knew It, 58:\nThe blacks who work on a station or farm are always, like the blacks in the Southern States, called boys.\n1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 233: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.\n1907 May 13, N.Y. Evening Post, 6:\n The register clerk assigns you to a room, and instead of ‘Front!’ he shouts ‘Boy!’\n1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:He thrust his head into the aisle. \"Boy!\" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. \"What will you have? Beer?\"\n1960 February 5, Northern Territory News, 5/5:\nAborigine Wally... described himself as ‘number one boy’ at the station.", "(obsolete) A male camp follower.\n1572, John Sadler translating Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Foure Bookes... Contayninge a Plaine Forme, and Perfect Knowledge of Martiall Policye..., iii, vii:\nIf 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.\n1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Godes plud kil the boyes and the lugyge,Tis the arrants peece of knauery " ] }, { "mean": "(now offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age. \n1812, Anne Plumptre translating Hinrich Lichtenstein, Travels in Southern Africa, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, Vol. I, i, viii, 119:\nA 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.\n1888, Louis Diston Powles, Land of Pink Pearl, or Recollections of Life in the Bahamas, 66:\nEvery darky, however old, is a boy.\n1973 September 8, Black Panther, 7/2:\n Guards still use the term ‘boy’ to refer to Black prisoners.\n1979, Bert Newton and Mohammed Ali, The Logie Awards:\nBN: I like the boy.MA: 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." }, { "mean": "A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog. \nC'mere, boy! Good boy! Who's a good boy?\nAre you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?" }, { "mean": "(historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.\n1841 May 6, Times in London, 5/4:\nWounded... 1 Boy, 1st class, severely.\n1963 April 30, Times in London, 16/2:\nHe joined the Navy as a boy second class in 1898." }, { "mean": "(US, slang, uncountable) Heroin. \n2021, Tim Weber, Heroin: the Ripple Effect\n 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." }, { "mean": "(somewhat childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).\n1950, Pageant:\nAre 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 ...\n1970 , Helen V. Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, Helen Van Pelt's African Violets, Dutton Adult (→ISBN):\nOf 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." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.\nBoy, that was close!\nBoy, that tastes good!\nBoy, I wish I could go to Canada!\n2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68: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." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).\nc. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "girl, man (antonyms in some senses)\nAppendix:English collective nouns" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "인터젝션", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }