| 单词 | boy |
| 释义 | boy (once / 14 pages) n A boy is a male child. When a baby is born, the doctor or midwife often says, "It's a girl!" or "It's a boy!" A boy usually grows up to be a man, just as a girl most often becomes a woman. A delivery boy is a young man whose job involves taking pizzas to people's homes, and you might call to your dog, "Here, boy!" unless your dog is female. Boy is also an exclamation: "Oh boy! I can't wait for my vacation next week!" The Old English root is boie, "boy," but also "servant" or "commoner." WORD FAMILYboy: boyhood, boyish, boylike, boys+/boyhood: boyhoods/boyish: boyishly, boyishness USAGE EXAMPLESPolice chief Tom Ross of Bountiful, a city in northern Utah, said the boy’s mother and father became concerned about their son Thursday morning. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) The pudgy boy turned to me as I craned my neck. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) The scandal emerged last month after at least six former professional players publicly said that they had been molested as boys in youth programs. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1n a youthful male person the baby was a boy she made the boy brush his teeth every night most soldiers are only boys in uniform Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper male child female child, girl, little girl a youthful female person altar boy a boy serving as an acolyte ball boya boy who retrieves balls for tennis players bat boy(baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boya male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) catamitea boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man farm boya boy who has grown up on a farm Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroyan excessively polite and well-dressed boy ploughboy, plowboya boy who leads the animals that draw a plow schoolboya boy attending school Scouta Boy Scout or Girl Scout shop boya young male shop assistant Boy Scouta boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts Girl Scouta girl who is a member of the Girl Scouts male, male person a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies 2n a male human offspring his boy is taller than he is Syn|Ant|Exp|Hypo|Hyper son daughter, girl a female human offspring Esau (Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage Jnr, Jr, Junior a son who has the same first name as his father mama's boy, mamma's boy, mother's boya boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests male offspring, man-child a child who is male 3n a friendly informal reference to a grown man he likes to play golf with the boys Hypo|Hyper broth of a boy, broth of a man an outstanding person; as if produced by boiling down a savory broth one of the boysa man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men adult male, man an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) 4n (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man get out of my way, boy Hyper Black man a man who is Black |
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