boy
sustantivointerjecciónverbotop 1 000 en diálogos de cine
- Reino Unido//boj//
- Estados Unidos//bɔɪ//
- Australia//boɪ//
A male child.
sustantivo
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A male child.
Kieran plays football with other boys in his school.
The ſtretes of the cite alſo ſhalbe full of yonge boyes and damſelles, playnge vpon the ſtretes.
I find I was mistaken in the sex, it is a boy.
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
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informalA young man.
Kate is dating a boy named Jim.
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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.
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A male human younger than the speaker.
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informalA male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
boys' club
"My dear girl, what has he done?" said Mrs. Mallowe, sweetly. It is noticeable that ladies of a certain age call each other "dear girl," just as commissioners of twenty-eight years' standing address their equals in the Civil List as "my boy."
It opened up a whole range [of feelings]. Some of them we were prepared for ― like for some women to feel some of the images were anti-feminist […] One woman wrote, "I can see the boys have taught you well." "Macho B.S.," someone else wrote.
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obsoletoA male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
Do’ſt thou call mee foole boy?
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A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly
He allowed his ‘boy’ - an overfed young negro from the coast - to treat the white men, under his very eyes, with provoking insolence.
“Why does he go out and pinch all his dogs in person? He’s an administrator, isn’t he? Wouldn’t he hire a boy or something?” “We call them ‘staff,’” Roger replies, […]
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A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee A younger such worker.
I resolved to continue in the Cave, with my two Servants, my Maid, and a Boy, whom I had brought from France.
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históricoA male servant, slave, assistant, or employee A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
My Boy Stephen Grauener.
They picked out two of the strongest of the Boys (as they call the Men) about the place.
The blacks who work on a station or farm are always, like the blacks in the Southern States, called boys.
From a domestic point of view the advent of the Chinese was a decided blessing, for, instead of the European ladies of the settlement having to do all their own work, they were able to employ a proper staff of Chinese boys.
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obsoletoA male servant, slave, assistant, or employee A male camp follower.
If any water be rough and boysterous, or the chanell verye broade, it manye times drowneth the carriages and the boyes and nowe and then slouthfull and lyther souldiours.
Godes plud kil the boyes and the lugyge, Tis the arrants peece of knauery[…]
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Any non-white male, regardless of age.
A Hottentot... expects to be called by his name if addressed by any one who knows it; and by those to whom it is not known he expects to be called Hottentot... or boy.
Every darky, however old, is a boy.
[In Alabama,] Guards still use the term ‘boy’ to refer to Black prisoners.
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informalA male friend.
hanging with my boys
The next thing I remember, I am walking down the street / I'm feeling all right, I'm with my boys, I'm with my troops, yeah.
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A male submissive.
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A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male pet, especially a dog.
C'mere, boy! Good boy! Who's a good boy?
Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?
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históricoA former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
Wounded... 1 Boy, 1st class, severely.
He joined the Navy as a boy second class in 1898.
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jergaHeroin.
[…] drove by a corner, saw what I thought—no, what I knew—were dealers and asked if they knew where I could get some boy.
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A male (tree, gene, etc).
Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...
Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.
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Any tangible object close to one's person; often used in emphatic forms such as bad boy.
This boy can really kick!
Etimología
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”), from Old English *bōia (“boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōjō, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô (“younger brother, young male relation”), from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“brother, close male relation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-, *bʰāt- (“father, elder brother, brother”). Cognate with Scots boy (“boy”), West Frisian boai (“boy”), Dutch boi (“boy”), Low German Boi (“boy”), and probably to the Old English proper name Bōia. Also related to West Flemish boe (“brother”), Norwegian dialectal boa (“brother”), Dutch boef (“rogue, knave”), Bavarian Bua (“young boy, lad”), German Bube ("boy; knave; jack"; > English bub), Icelandic bófi (“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”), Lombard bagaj. See also bully.
interjección
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Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
Boy, that was close!
Boy, that tastes good!
Boy, I wish I could go to Canada!
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
verbo
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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.
Formas
- plural
- boys, boyz
- pasado
- boyed
- participio
- boyed
- gerundio
- boying
- 3.ª persona del singular
- boys