Word Finder - boy

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A young male.

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Kate is dating a boy named Jim.

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(diminutive) A male child: a son of any age.

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(diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker.

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A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.

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(now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:

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Any non-white male, regardless of age.

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A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog.

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Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?

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A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.

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Heroin.

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(somewhat childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).

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To use the word “boy” to refer to someone.

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Don't boy me!

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

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Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

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Boy, I wish I could go to Canada!

I could see a man and a boy some distance away, pitching hay into a horse drawn wagon.

You are the sweetest boy in the world.

The boy just turned six.

Are you blaming a little boy for what his mother did?

You think the boy might not be mine?

Boy must be very careful.

The little boy was unconscious.

For a moment the boy did not know what he meant by this question.

The announcement went on to describe what the young boy was wearing and listed a tip line phone number to call with information.

Alex is a good boy.

He said he was the little boy in the poem, and that the girl's name was Sally, and more which I have forgotten.

He grabbed the child under his arm and after dropping the now limp boy on the other side, climbed back over.

He took the boy on his knee, played with him, and looked round at Princess Mary.

What about this boy Allen who called yesterday?

The boy was jubilant to be with a dad he loved and away from an overly strict mom.

There's the boy's father, Ryland, Gladys Turnbull, Claire Quincy....

Dean managed to whistle down a young boy who agreed to use his snow blower on Dean's unfinished sidewalk, for an amount Dean considered ridiculous, but he knew he needed to get up to snuff on Shipton's fall before he was totally on the defensive.

You look like the poor little match boy.

The young boy would be the only person Dean could think of who Cynthia would care enough to at least consider protecting.

I know he's the boy's father.

He can kill himself if he's fool enough to want to but the boy has no business up there.

He's a nice little boy, a bit immature, but very intelligent.

Dean couldn't hear what she said, but the boy gave her a hug and gestured to Martha who had hurried ahead to where Dean remained standing on the porch.

He's someone who will take care of the boy, maybe better than she can.

He's just a boy.

Lord knows what he did to Donnie over the years to cause the boy to despise him so.

Just be a good boy and you'll get there.

The young boy scampered back to Ryland's side, still smiling.

Franny just shrugged, as if she didn't want to say anything in front of the boy.

The boy took his small note pad from his back pocket and carefully wrote, "What happened to Annie?"

Dean asked the boy.

Again, the boy shook his head no.

I've got enough to do on this farm without looking after a pretty boy.

Maybe Alex was no pretty boy, but he was certainly accustomed to more lavish surroundings.

Don't issue orders to me like I'm a little boy.

You've got to get up, boy.

The boy froze then bolted.

Toby's backpack was there along with his pink coat.  Rhyn straightened, angry at himself for not hearing the boy leave.  A flash of purple caught his eye through the trees, and he loped through the forest.

They looked much younger, so it must have been taken years ago and some pictures of a boy and a girl.

Boy, have you been bitchy lately.

The game finished but Dean ignored an impulse to introduce himself and chat with the boy.

I could never be sure the old boy wouldn't have a change of heart some night and blow me away just to prove his masculinity, or send some of his Philadelphia clients around to work me over.

Dean introduced himself to the tall, good-looking boy who shook his hand firmly.

The boy shuffled his feet, looking down at the ground.

If another boy gave her so much as a second look, he had words with him.

Their only boy came along unexpectedly nine years later.

He's book smart and business savvy, but he's still a boy in some ways.

Heidi and Pretty Boy - who would have guessed?

She almost sighed, not sure what to tell the boy.

But although the Munchkin was hardly tall enough to come to Zeb's shoulder he was so strong and clever that he laid the boy three times on his back with apparent ease.