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pageboy

pageboy noun: a boy who serves as a page.

Noun

pageboy (plural pageboys)

  1. (now frequently historical) A boy who serves as a page.
  2. A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.
  3. A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.
    • Their hair was sleek, of a slightly other period, immaculate page boys and French twists.1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 53
    • She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of pageboy

pluralpageboys
alternative formpage boy
alternative formpage-boy

Origin of pageboy

From page + boy.

Questions about pageboy

What does pageboy mean?
Pageboy means a boy who serves as a page.
What part of speech is pageboy?
Pageboy is a noun.
What is the plural of pageboy?
The plural of pageboy is pageboys.

Words near pageboy in the dictionary

  1. pageantries
  2. pageantry
  3. pageants
  4. pageaunt
  5. pageaunts
  6. pageboy
  7. pageboys
  8. paged
  9. paged down
  10. paged in
  11. paged out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pageboy (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.

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