boy
A male child.
Noun 4 meanings
A male child.
“Kieran plays football with other boys in his school.”
A young man.
“Kate is dating a boy named Jim.”
A son of any age.
A male human younger than the speaker.
Interjection 1 meaning
Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
“Boy, that was close!”
Verb 1 meaning
To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).
Etymology
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”).
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BOY at a glance
BOY has 3 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + Y 4) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #655 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with boy
All rhymes- COWBOY16
- SCHOOLBOY19
- FANBOY14
- HOMEBOY17
- TOMBOY13
- LADYBOY16
- PAPERBOY17
- DOUGHBOY18
- NEWSBOY15
- BUSBOY13
- BELLBOY14
- CHOIRBOY18
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