Schoolboy
['skuːlbɒɪ] or ['skulbɔɪ]
Definition
(n.) A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
Checker: Patrice
Examples
- They will change inches into feet, pounds into bushels, and do other stunts that would make the average schoolboy envious when it comes to arithmetic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Simply, by the use of some of the machine types mentioned above, illustrations of which are known in a general way to every schoolboy. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Though a schoolboy he was no ordinary schoolboy; he was destined to grow up an original. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the meanwhile, you must try to look at it from a new point of view, and not as a schoolboy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Was there anything gracious or kindly about me--great, reckless, schoolboy as I was? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The collegians he addressed, not as schoolboys, but as future citizens and embryo patriots. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My father wished us, as schoolboys, to speak well, but he would never wish his grown-up daughters to be acting plays. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Generally, I don't like schoolboys. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- By this time Maurice and his friend were also enjoying their bath in the cool element, and the three rollicked about like schoolboys. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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