Thesaurus:boy
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: child or adolescent male
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- bhoy
- boy
- boykin (rare, informal, affectionate)
- boyo (UK)
- callant (Scotland)
- chav [⇒ thesaurus] (Portugal)
- feely-omi (dated, Polari)
- knave (archaic)
- lad (UK)
- little boy
- man child (archaic)
- manling (literary)
- page
- pillicock (affectionate, obsolete)
- sapling
- shaveling
- son [⇒ thesaurus] (familiar)
- sonny (familiar)
- springald (archaic, rare)
- stripling (archaic)
- yob (obsolete, backslang)
- younker
- youth
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “boy” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “boy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.