noun. A male child.

noun. A son.

noun. A man, especially a young man.

noun. A man socializing in a group of men.

noun. A male servant or employee.

interjection. Used to express mild astonishment, elation, or disgust.

To treat as a boy, or as something belonging to or befitting a boy.

To act or represent in the manner of a boy: in allusion to the acting by boys of women's parts on the stage.

noun. In India, as far north as the Nerbudda river, a palankin-bearer. Yule and Burnell, Anglo-Ind. Glossary.

noun. A male child, from birth to full growth, but especially from the end of infancy to the beginning of youth: also applied to a young man, implying immaturity, want of vigor or judgment, etc.

noun. In familiar or playful use (usually in the plural), a grown man regarded as one of the younger members of a family, as an intimate friend or associate, or as having in any respect a boyish relation or character.

noun. Specifically, in the United States— In the South, especially before the abolition of slavery, a negro man.

noun. An unscrupulous local politician, especially in a large city; one of the managers or subordinates of the “machine” of a party in local politics and elections: as, a ticket not acceptable to the boys.

noun. A young servant; a page: as, “boys, grooms, and lackeys,”

noun. [Supposed by some to be “a corruption of Hind. bhaiee, a servant”; but the Hind. word, prop. bhāī, means ‘brother,’ and boy in this use is merely the E. word. Cf. boy.] In India and the treaty-ports of China and Japan, etc., a native male servant, especially a personal servant; a butler or waiter, house-boy, office-boy, etc., as distinguished from a coolie or porter: in common use among foreigners.

noun. Old boy, a familiar name for the devil.

noun. Roaring boys. See roaring.

transitive verb. To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

noun. A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

noun. In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race; -- considered derogatory by those so called, and now seldom used.

noun. a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies in which the bishop usually officiated.

noun. the Devil.

noun. guineas.

noun. a popular English name of Southernwood (Artemisia abrotonum); -- called also lad's love.

noun. childish amusements; anything trifling.

noun. Male servant.

interjection. Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

verb. To use the word boy to refer to someone.

verb. To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).

noun. a male human offspring

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

noun. a friendly informal reference to a grown man

noun. a youthful male person

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