Thesaurus:boy

Thesaurus

boy

English

Noun

Sense: child or adolescent male

Synonyms

• 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

Antonyms

• girl    [⇒ thesaurus]
• man    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• child    [⇒ thesaurus]
• man    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “boy” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “boy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.