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schoolboy

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈskulˌbɔɪ//

A boy attending school.

noun

  1. 1

    A boy attending school.

Etymology

From school + boy.

adjective

  1. 1

    figurativeCharacteristic of a schoolboy, especially being cheeky, clumsy and socially unaware.

Forms

plural
schoolboys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).