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Boy

noun

A youthful male person. Synonym: male child. "She made the boy brush his teeth every night" , "Most soldiers are only boys in uniform"

A friendly informal reference to a grown man.

A male human offspring. Synonym: son. "His boy is taller than he is"

(ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man.

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"Boy" Quotes from Famous Books

... says (De Doctr. Christ. ii, 20) that "a thousand vain observances are comprised under the head of compacts entered into with the demons: for instance, the twitching of a limb; a stone, a dog, or a boy coming between friends walking together; kicking the door-post when anyone passes in front of one's house; to go back to bed if you happen to sneeze while putting on your shoes; to return home if you ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... like to see his poor old Jack starve—but just you look where he has climbed to." . . . He hiccoughed in a superior, leisurely manner. . . . "Ship-owning it with the best. A lottery ticket you want. Ha! ha! I will give you lottery tickets, my boy. Let the old ship sink and the old chum starve—that's right. He don't go wrong—Massy don't. Not he. He's a genius—that man is. That's the way to win your money. Ship and chum ...

— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad

... vain enough to suspect, foolish boy, but come! Do you think that I have nothing to talk about but nonsense? Come and see me. It may be better for you. I live in—' and she named a fashionable street, which Philammon, though he inwardly vowed not to accept the invitation, somehow could ...

— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley

... slipped down an' stepped slow to the Red King's head. He put up his arms an' they closed over the arched neck an' his cheek laid against the satin skin of him. For what seemed like a long time they stood there, an' then Tex stepped back an' pointed to the yellow range: 'Go on, boy!' he said, 'Go!' An' he brought the flat of his hand down with a slap on the shiny flank. For just an instant the horse hesitated an' then he went over the edge. The loose rocks clattered loud, an' then come the sound of hoofs on the sod as the Red King tore ...

— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx

... still almost a boy when he broke with Wycherley; but he was already beginning to attract attention, and within a surprisingly short time he was becoming known as one of the first writers of the day. I must now turn to the poems by which this reputation ...

— Alexander Pope - English Men of Letters Series • Leslie Stephen

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