Word.ws English Dictionary

boylet

boylet noun: a male infant or very young boy.

Noun

boylet (plural boylets)

  1. A male infant or very young boy.
    • Dear little boylets and little girllets, don't play with any more tin cans, or at least if you do, do put them away when you are through with them, and don't hang them on the trees.1894, The Halcyon - Volume 10, page 43
    • Dr. Aar's experiments, given in the Zelts. Pedag. Psych., show that the girlets mostly prefer green and the boylets the combinations of blue.1900, Popular Science News - Volume 34, page 101
  2. A casual boyfriend
    • Her sister is on the phone with the latest of her many boylets.2000, Nick Carbó, Eileen Tabios, Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers, →ISBN
    • We're standing about 80 feet from the stage, hemmed in by another group of girls with their boylets on the right, and a group of boys who are checking us out on the left.2001, Maria Leonida Fres- Felix, Sup?, →ISBN, page 5

Examples of boylet in a sentence

  • A final protest is in order when we read of “summer suits for the boylets.”1918, The Youth's Companion - Volume 92, Part 2, page 414:
  • The stupid things that boylets did I downright just refused to.1963, Michigan's Voices - Volume 3, Issue 3, page 69:
  • And lastly, thanks to my long-suffering family – to Mum, Craig, the boylets and my mum-in-law Ronice!2012, Rachael Johns, Jilted, →ISBN:
  • Their rebellious daughter (Julia Barretto) is alienated from her and wants to work in London to see her secret boylet (Jameson Blake).2017 December 7, Hannah Victoria Wabe, “Unexpected life lessons from 'Unexpectedly Yours'”, in Sun.Star Philippines:

Forms of boylet

pluralboylets

Origin of boylet

From boy + -let.

Questions about boylet

What does boylet mean?
Boylet means a male infant or very young boy.
How do you use boylet in a sentence?
A final protest is in order when we read of “summer suits for the boylets.”
What part of speech is boylet?
Boylet is a noun.
What is the plural of boylet?
The plural of boylet is boylets.

Words near boylet in the dictionary

  1. boyles
  2. boylesque
  3. boyless
  4. boylessness
  5. Boylestone
  6. boylet
  7. boylets
  8. boylike
  9. boyling
  10. boylove
  11. boylover

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boylet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “boylet.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/boylet. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.