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schoolboy|ˈskuːlbɔɪ|
[f. school n.1 + boy.]
1. a. A boy attending or belonging to a school.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 403 O! neuer will I trust to speeches pen'd, Nor to the motion of a Schoole-boies tongue. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. v, Death, what talke you of his Learning? he vnderstands no more then a schoole-Boy. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 145. 1788 Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XIII. 37 School-boys without tutors, minors without guardians. 1813Southey in Croker Papers (1884) I. 49, I should go to the task like a schoolboy. 1881F. J. Crowest Phases Mus. Eng. 164 The merest schoolboy, it would be thought, could have detected the absurdity of such a musical passage.
b. In phr. every schoolboy knows, referring to a matter of factual information, supposed to be elementary and generally known.
1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. 80 Every Schole-boy knows it. 1721Swift Poems (1958) I. 281 How haughtily he lifts his Nose, To tell what ev'ry School Boy knows. 1840Macaulay in Edin. Rev. Jan. 295 Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa. 1966Listener 8 Sept. 365/3 Tallis's motet Spem in alium nunquam habui was for years more often written about than heard. A tour-de-force in forty voice-parts: so much every schoolboy knew. 1977Times 15 Oct. 2/8 Every schoolboy knows that the No. 3 bus from Piccadilly Circus comes to Valley Fields, Wodehouse's familiar pseudonym for Dulwich.
2. attrib. and Comb., passing into adj. as schoolboy code (of honour), schoolboy English, schoolboy French, schoolboy honour, schoolboy humour; also schoolboy-like adj.
1874C. M. Yonge Lady Hester vii. 169 The boy endured all the rage and scorn that a threat so contrary to all schoolboy codes of honour and friendship might deserve. 1977P. G. Winslow Witch Hill Murder ii. xviii. 248 His blue gaze fell on Capricorn expecting him to understand and accept his schoolboy code.
1798Southey Autumn 18, I call to mind The school-boy days.
1835J. Romilly Diary 6 July (1967) 82 P. George of Camb. delighted me by his returning thanks, because it was good simple schoolboy English.
1955E. Blishen Roaring Boys iii. 158 He delighted in mimicking my schoolboy French. 1977J. Cleary High Road to China ii. 41 A six months' affair with a girl in Auxi had improved his schoolboy French.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxx, In his big schoolboy hand⁓writing.
1876C. M. Yonge Womankind xviii. 138 To keep up a standard of real honour, above schoolboy honour, is most needful. 1970P. Y. Carter Mr Campion's Falcon xxii. 166 He has a sense of schoolboy honour, a perfectly straightforward code.
1962G. K. Hunter John Lyly iv. 237 The inane schoolboy humour of his part, and the tradition of Ralph Roister Doister to which it belongs, both point to a juvenile rather than an adult actor. 1977R. Perry Dead End viii. 99 Just forget the schoolboy humour and do as you're told.
1802H. Martin Helen of Glenross III. 74, I cannot help laughing at his schoolboy-like joy in his new play⁓things.
1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xviii, Or schoolboy Midshipman that..Strains his shrill pipe as good or ill betides.
1687Settle Refl. Dryden 6 This great pretender to Learning has not wit enough to make an Allegory, but violates the common School-boy Rules of sence.
1712Addison Spect. No. 523 ⁋2 A parcel of School-Boy Tales.
1887Spectator 15 Oct. 1380 This curiously school⁓boy way of insulting a foreign nation.
Hence ˈschoolboydom, ˈschoolboyhood, the state or condition of being a schoolboy; also, schoolboys collectively. ˈschoolboyism, action or conduct characteristic of a schoolboy.
1836E. Howard R. Reefer xxi, The pedantic school⁓boyism of calling a house-keeper a nymph. 1854Whewell in Life (1881) 436 The recollections of schoolboyhood. 1880R. G. White Every-Day English 277 The first great English grammar, the one by which school-boydom has been chiefly oppressed, was written by an American. 1893Temple Bar XCVIII. 139 Schoolboyhood whispers derision. |