Word Finder - boys

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A young male.

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Kate is dating a boy named Jim.

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(diminutive) A male child: a son of any age.

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(diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker.

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A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.

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(now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:

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Any non-white male, regardless of age.

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A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog.

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Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?

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A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.

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Heroin.

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(somewhat childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).

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The testicles.

One of your boys called me.

She wondered if twelve-year-old boys played with stuffed animals.

The boys lost no time in trying it.

Little girls and boys jumped and clapped their hands.

Many boys and indeed many girls have read his story.

What if Señor Medena had three boys instead of three girls?

Most of the boys she dated would never have thought of practicing the age-old custom of walking around the car to open her door, or guiding her through the crowd with a gentle hand on one elbow.

Dean didn't answer but had no intention of asking the boys diddly, at least for the near future, at least until he sensed what was going on.

As they left, they bumped into Brandon Westlake as he made his way toward the boys.

The boys had been playing switch and swap every time it suited their fancy since they had shared a crib.

Of course, most of the boys she dated were much younger than Yancey.

The two young women chatted endlessly about the latest fashion in Paris and the boys who were attracted to them.

They were missing and the only person who gave a damn was Mrs. Wassermann, the mother of the bouncing boys.

Middle-aged men wear the hair about an inch and a half long; young men and boys in a huge mop; while married women wear it in a chignon, and girls in mop-form but plaited.

Do you know why they dont advise soya formulas for young boys?

Meanwhile, the boys could use some attention.

She had some shopping to do and the boys were in the way.

Tim squealed, bringing Carmen's attention back to the boys.

You boys are growing like weeds.

Did you want me to watch the boys for you?

Carmen lowered Jim to the ground and took both boys by the hand.

Katie didn't stay long and she took the boys with her when she left.

The only thing boys his age think about is propagate, propagate.

Apparently the idea came up when the boys heard it called road apples.

Alex had been embarrassed, but Morino's response was basically "boys will be boys."

From what she had read and gleaned from conversations with mothers of teen boys, Jonathan was typical for his age.

There were five boys in their band – two of them a rebellious age of fifteen.

It seemed that they rarely saw him anymore and those boys weren't the best influence.

Far stronger than boys many years older than he was, he bent and lifted her, carrying her to her permanent resting place.

He appears to have entered into consultation of a treasonable kind with Monmouth and others; he himself had, he declared, ten thousand brisk boys in London ready to rise at his bidding.

Behind the College is the Royal Hospital School, where woo boys, sons of petty officers and seamen, are boarded.

Kaisarieh is the headquarters of the American mission in Cappadocia, which has several churches and schools for boys and girls and does splendid medical work.

They give an education similar to that offered in the lyces for boys with certain modificationsin a curriculum of five or six years.

Stringent rules, too, governed the food of women and the youth of both sexes, and it was only after initiation that boys were allowed to eat of all the game the forest provided.

It is the seat of the Missouri training school for boys (1889), and of the Kemper military school (1844).

His boyhood was spent with a grandmother in Middletown, Connecticut; and prior to his entering college he had read widely in English literature and history, had surpassed most boys in the extent of his Greek and Latin work, and had studied several modern languages.

The public buildings include the town hall, a fine and commodious house on the site of the old tolbooth; the Falconer museum, containing among other exhibits several valuable fossils, and named after Dr Hugh Falconer (1808-1865), the distinguished palaeontologist and botanist, a native of the town; the mechanics' institute; the agricultural and market hall; Leanchoil hospital and Anderson's Institution for poor boys.

There are a grammar school (1712), and boys' school and free school on the foundation of Sir John Leman (1631).

Mill complains that his father often required more than could be expected of him, but his tasks were not so severe as to prevent him from growing up a healthy and high-spirited boy, though he was not constitutionally robust, and his pursuits were so different from those of other boys of the same age.

When he was six years of age he announced his intention of going to Conchobar's court at Emain Macha (Navan Rath near Armagh) to play with the boys there.

He defeats all the boys in marvellous fashion and is received as one of their number.

The state penal institutions are the boys' industrial school near Lancaster (established in 1854 as a Reform Farm), the girls' industrial home (1869) at Rathbone near Delaware, the reformatory at Mansfield (authorized 1884, opened 1896) and the penitentiary at Columbus (1816).

A girls' Latin school, with the same standards as the boys' school, was established in 1878 (an outcome of the same movement that founded Radcliffe College).

Under Elizabeth Margate was still an obscure fishing village employing about 20 small vessels ("boys") in the coasting and river trades, chiefly in the conveyance of grain, on which in 1791 it chiefly subsisted.

Among the principal buildings are the U.S. Government Building, the City Hall and the County Court House; and the city's institutions include the Laredo Seminary (1882) for boys and girls, the Mercy Hospital, the National Railroad of Mexico Hospital and an Ursuline Convent.

There are many fine country places, two private schools - the Mackenzie school for boys and the Misses Masters' school for girls - and the children's village (with about thirty cottages) of the New York juvenile asylum.

In some districts the young men and boys sleep in the skull-chambers, in order that they may be inspired with courage.

The earliest schools which are still existing were formed at Bristol, for boys in 1810 and for girls in the following year.

At the British Seamen's Orphans' home boys are fed, clothed and trained as apprentices for the merchant service.

While the slave trade was permitted, the mutilation of boys and young men, too often practised, was punished with exile and even with death.