Thesaurus:boy

English

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.

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