boys

Noun

boy (countable and uncountable, plural boys or (eye dialect) boyz)

1. A male child.
   • Kieran plays football with other boys in his school.
2. (broadly, informal) A young man.
   • Kate is dating a boy named Jim.

   Synonyms:

   brat, knave, squirt

3. (broadly, diminutive, especially) A son of any age.
   • Low as that tide has ebbed with me, / It still reflects to memory’s eye / The hour, my brave, my only boy, / Fell by the side of great Dundee.1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   son

4. (broadly, diminutive, endearing) A male human younger than the speaker.
5. (broadly, derogatory, informal, mildly, sometimes) A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
   • boys' club
6. (broadly, obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
   • Do’ſt thou call mee foole boy?c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...

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