A male child.
Kieran plays football with other boys in his school.
A son of any age.
Low as that tide has ebbed with me, / It still reflects to memory’s eye / The hour, my brave, my only boy, / Fell by the side of great Dundee.
Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
Boy, that was close!
To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).
I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.
Initialism of beginning of year.
Coordinate term: EOY
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō- Proto-West Germanic *bōjō Old English *bōia Middle English boye English boy From Middle English boy /boye (“servant, commoner, knave, boy”)...
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