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blue-eyed boys

blue-eyed boys is the plural of blue-eyed boy.

Meaning of blue-eyed boy

Noun

blue-eyed boy (plural blue-eyed boys)

  1. (Australian, British, derogatory, idiomatic, informal, usually) The favorite, especially a young one, especially of someone in power; a fair-haired boy (US), (Australian).
    • ...this cove was so deucedly civil, and all that, that now she won't look at anybody else. He's the blue-eyed boy, and everybody else is an also-ran.1919, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress
  2. (Australian, British) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed, boy.

Questions about blue-eyed boys

What is blue-eyed boys the plural of?
Blue-eyed boys is the plural of blue-eyed boy.

Words near blue-eyed boys in the dictionary

  1. blue-eared kingfisher
  2. blue-eared kingfishers
  3. blue-eye
  4. blue-eyed
  5. blue-eyed boy
  6. blue-eyed boys
  7. blue-eyed cormorant
  8. blue-eyed cormorants
  9. blue-eyed grass
  10. blue-eyed grasses
  11. blue-eyed Mary

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