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schoolboy

[skool-boi]

noun

  1. a boy attending school.



schoolboy

/ ˈːˌɔɪ /

noun

  1. Gender-neutral form: pupil. schoolchild.a child attending school

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • schoolboyish adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolboy1

First recorded in 1580–90; school 1 + boy
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The account was in the name of Jamie_jones6968 who claimed to be a schoolboy in England, but the IP address of the account which sent the messages was traced to Clark.

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Two arrests have been made after a video was uploaded to social media showing a schoolboy being assaulted in Newport.

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A vulnerable autistic schoolboy "could have died" after being left on a locked school bus for more than two hours, his mother said.

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Two men have been found guilty of the murder of Cassius Turvey, an Aboriginal schoolboy who was chased down by a vigilante gang and beaten, in a case which outraged Australia.

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Williams jokingly made reference to playing Zhao in an exhibition when he was only a schoolboy after defeating Judd Trump on Saturday.

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