Boy

Definition: Boy

Boy

Noun

1. A youthful male person; "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform".

2. A friendly informal reference to a grown man; "he likes to play golf with the boys".

3. A male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is".

4. Offensive term for Black man; "get out of my way boy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "boy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Boy \Boy\, noun. [Compare to Dutch boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to German bube, Icelandic bofi rouge.]. (references)

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Boy

Clergy

Churchwarden, sidesman; clerk, precentor, choir; almoner, suisse, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy; chorister.

Infant

Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.

Man

Noun: man, male, he, him; manhood. (adolescence); gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband. (married man); Mr., mister; boy. (youth).

Messenger

Commissionaire; errand boy, chore boy; newsboy.

Servant

Attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar; yardman.

The Drama

Property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager; director, stage manager, acting manager.

Crosswords: Boy

French (boy), German (bellhop, boy, houseboy), Sranan (boy, lad), Turkish (bulk, clan, height, length, linear measurement, size, stature, tribe).

Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that one. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Clever boy. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

The man I know is not the boy you remember (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Boy, what a fruitcake you are (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.)

Here, boy! Here, boy (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson)

He was some boogie woogie bugle boy of company B. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler)

Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day. (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M)

A country boy can survive (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock)

Ain’t much an old country boy like me can’t hack (Thank God I’m A Country Boy; performing artist: John Denver)

You just a baby boy (Just A Baby Boy; performing artist: Tyrese)

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. (references; author: Mark Twain)

In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Sleeping on the job: Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won’t wear off. (references; author: unknown)

Boy (2003)

Golden Boy (2002)

The Boy with Two Heads (1974)

That Boy (1974)

The All-American Boy (1973)

Oh, Boy! (performing artist: The Crickets)

Schizo Boy (performing artist: Flipp)

COUNTRY BOY (performing artist: GLEN CAMPBELL)

A Country Boy Can Survive (performing artist: Hank Williams Jr.)

Thank God I'm A Country Boy (performing artist: John Denver)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Petit Boy: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• About a Boy (reference)

• Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship (reference)

• Once upon a Potty: Boy (reference)

• Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Boy Crazy (reference)

• Oyster Boy Review (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius (reference)

• Tommy Boy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mad About the Boy (reference)

• Abductions with the Alter Boy (reference)

• The Boy With the Arab Strap (reference)

• Barefoot Boy (reference)

• Apple of My Eye 1 / Alligator Boy / Weary & Bleary [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Game Boy Advance Console in Glacier (reference)

• Case Logic GBC3 Compact Game Boy Case (Black) (reference)

• Grundig Yacht Boy Shortwave Radio (reference)

• Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Big Foot Big Boy 14" Saw (reference)

• Bucket Boss Brand 06049 GateMouth Long Boy (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is a Japanese-American family. There is a mother, father and a pre-school boy. They are seated in an outdoor restaurant and are eating hamburgers and drinking milk. Because Japanese-Americans tend to marry among themselves, factors other than genetic must be examined for cancer incidence. Diet and other lifestyle variations are being studied. Japanese who emigrate to California and change their lifestyles, seem to have an increased incidence of colon cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

PET scan on an 11-year-old boy with hemophilia and AIDS. Before treatment subject was confused and somnolent. These symptoms were resolved with AZT therapy. The increase in green and red areas after treatment denotes a rise in glucose metabolism, indicating an improvement in brain function. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

As part of the national immunization effort, a doctor is giving a measles vaccination to a young boy at Fernbank School in Atlanta, Georgia, 1962. Credit: CDC.

Measles rash on back of boy. Third day of rash. Rubeola, morbilli. Credit: CDC.

Billy making a mess - boy that stuff takes good. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A Manabo tribe boy. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Boy, does it get foggy around here. I think I saw a cruise ship out there somewhere!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Boy! That milk was good. Think I'll take a nap. Note bloody umbilical cord area. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Boy fishing from the commercial docks. Credit: Fisheries.

The first fish a young boy had ever caught - an undersized red drum. Too bad it's too small to keep. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And he is a very clever boy, indeed

The aged brows were bent, Bent to a frown, half thought, and half annoy, That all their stores of subtlest argument Were baffled by a boy.

There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night

The boy came back with the paper

The boy that held the censer had swung it gently to and fro near the door with the silvery cap lifted by the middle chain to keep the coals lighting

A parlous boy! Go to, you are too shrewd

The boy in white went into the iron building where his helper labored over a book of bills

On the 16th day of June, 1703, a boy on the topmost discovered land

0.02 Horse cultivator and boy three hours

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A 9-year-old boy was the first person to have received an effective shot for rabies. (references)

The boy survived and lived a long life. That was how people starting giving shots for rabies. (references)

It is the disease of "the boy in the bubble," who spent his life in an isolation chamber to protect himself from germs. (references)

Business

Such births are unreported so that the parents can keep trying to conceive a boy. (references)

There is widespread sentiment in Tibet in favor of the boy selected by the Dalai Lama. (references)

Children

Ghana

In exceptional cases, when a girl of suitable age or status is unavailable, a boy can be offered. (references)

Georgia

For example, in August 2000, the police detained an 11-year old boy in Tbilisi who was trying to sell a sheet of aluminum. (references)

Uganda

In April 14, police in Kigunga village in Goma sub-county, in the eastern town of Mukono, arrested three traditional healers for allegedly kidnaping and trying to sacrifice a 13-year-old boy. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mozambique

Although the boy returned to Tanzania, the Minister of Justice and provincial governor reversed the order. (references)

Canada

The student was arrested after reading aloud in class a fictional essay he wrote for a class assignment, in which a bullied boy blows up his school. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Best prospects, mostly of man-made fibers, include men, boy, women, and girls' clothing. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

The next day the boy was dead; police claimed that it was a suicide. (references)

Bangladesh

Approximately 20 hours later, police sent the boy to the hospital, where he died. (references)

Belarus

The police also threatened to subject the boy to electroshock and denied him food. (references)

Indigenous People

Norway

National/Racial/Minorities In January a 15-year-old boy with an African father was killed in Oslo. (references)

Minorities

Austria

Authorities stated that the boy was motivated by hatred of foreigners. (references)

Italy

In March a male Rom was convicted for the November 1998 killing of an 11-year-old boy. (references)

Political Economy

Bulgaria

Early expectations were that 2001 parliamentary elections would follow a similar course, with the UDF holding on to at least a plurality ahead of the BSP. All that changed, however, with the return to the country of Simeon II, the former Tsar who had lived most of his life in exile in Madrid since leaving Bulgaria as a boy after World War II. Simeon Saxe-Coburg brought together a diverse group of individuals in the National Movement Simeon II and, although he did not run for a seat in parliament himself, swept aside both the UDF and BSP in coming just one seat short of an absolute majority in the new National Assembly. (references)

Women

Turkey

In May in Adana, a 14-year old boy was arrested for stabbing his mother to death. (references)

Jordan

In July a 15-year-old boy from Irbid confessed to killing his 20-year-old sister. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The authorities strictly limit access to the boy. (references)

United Arab Emirates

After being repatriated to Bangladesh, the boy died from kidney damage resulting from those injuries. (references)

United Arab Emirates

In April a 7-year-old Bangladeshi boy working as a camel jockey was injured during a camel race in Dubai. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "boy": a bit of a boy ♦ a brick of a boy ♦ a slip of a boy ♦ a wisp of a boy ♦ altar boy ♦ at a boy ♦ baby boy ♦ backroom boy ♦ bad boy ♦ baker's boy ♦ ball boy ♦ bargain boy ♦ barrow boy ♦ bat boy ♦ be a good boy ♦ be brought to bed of a boy ♦ bell boy ♦ big boy ♦ birthday boy ♦ blue boy ♦ Boy bishop ♦ boy child ♦ boy friend ♦ boy in buttons ♦ boy leg ♦ boy of fifteen ♦ boy River ♦ boy scout ♦ boy Scouts ♦ boy Scouts of America ♦ boy wonder ♦ broth of a boy ♦ bully boy ♦ bus boy ♦ butcher boy ♦ cabin boy ♦ Call boy ♦ Cash boy ♦ charity boy ♦ choir boy ♦ chore boy ♦ city boy ♦ college boy ♦ copy boy ♦ cow boy ♦ delivery boy ♦ devil of a boy ♦ drummer boy ♦ elevator boy ♦ errand boy ♦ fair boy ♦ farm boy ♦ from a boy ♦ golden boy ♦ good boy ♦ grocery boy ♦ Hawk boy ♦ head boy ♦ he's a mere boy ♦ home boy ♦ Hopper boy ♦ how well the boy rides! ♦ last year boy ♦ little boy ♦ loblolly boy ♦ low boy ♦ mamas boy ♦ mama's boy ♦ mamma's boy ♦ man and boy ♦ mess boy ♦ messenger boy ♦ mother's boy ♦ nancy boy ♦ naughty boy ♦ new boy ♦ newborn baby boy ♦ newspaper boy ♦ observant boy ♦ office boy ♦ old boy ♦ page boy ♦ pansy boy ♦ paper boy ♦ parish boy ♦ play boy ♦ poor boy ♦ post boy ♦ pretty boy ♦ promising boy ♦ rent boy ♦ roaring boy ♦ sailor boy ♦ school boy ♦ sea boy ♦ servant boy ♦ shepherd boy ♦ ship boy ♦ ship's boy ♦ shoeshine boy ♦ shop boy. Additional references.

Beginning with "boy": boy-and-his-dog, boy-babies, boy-ban, boy-child, boy-friend, boy-friends, boy-genius, boy-girl, boy-god, boy-gunner, boy-hero, boy-his, boy-in-the-box, boy-king, boy-lance-corporal, boy-life, boy-like, boy-lovers, boy-meets-girl, boy-next-door, boy-outfitted, boy-outsider, boy-preacher, boy-producing, boy-proof, boy-racer, boy-rescue, boy-scout, boy-scout troop, boy-scoutish, boy-servant, boy-soldier, boy-soldiers, boy-something, boy-to-alien, boy-who-was-shaman, boy-wonder, boy-word.

Ending with "boy": bad-boy, bully-boy, cabin-boy, charity-boy, errand-boy, house-boy, little-boy, lover-boy, man-boy, new-boy, old-boy, page-boy, post-boy, school-boy, stable-boy, tea-boy, teddy-boy, toy-boy, whipping-boy, wide-boy.

Containing "boy": little-boy-lost, old-boy competition, the-boy-stood-on-the-burning-deck.

Afrikaans

seun (lad, laddie, son). (various references)

Albanian

djalë (chap, child, egg, fella, fellow, Jack, Johnny, lad, loon, man child, son, Walla, youngster). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتى (adolescent, bugger, lad, scout, sprig, young man, youngish, youngster, youth), ‏ولد (baby, bear, beget, born, breed, bring forth, deliver, engender, fall, father, generate, germinate, give birth, infant, interpolate, junior, kid, lad, mother, originate, produce, see the light, sire, son, spawn), ‏غلام (chap, child, guy, laddie, man, nipper, punk, shaver), ‏صبي (gamin, guy, lad, sapling, shaver, son, tad), ‏خادم (attendant, factotum, flunkey, flunky, footman, knave, lackey, livery, man, manservant, menial, page, retainer, servant, valet, vassal), ‏إبن (bairn, child, son), ‏رجل (bloke, buck, chap, gent, go on foot, lad, leg, male, man, pin), ‏شخص (baby, bloke, body, cuss, customer, diagnose, effigy, embody, guy, individual, joker, man, person, personate, scout, sort, specimen, spirit, stick), ‏شاب (admix, chap, contaminate, lad, sprig, stud, tinge, young, young man, youngster, youth, youthful). (various references)

Aymara

yoqalla. (various references)

Blackfoot

saahkómaapi. (various references)

Bulgarian 

юнга (grummet), туземен слуга, момче (bud, chap, chappy, fellow, gossoon, guy, kid, knave, lad, laddie, loon, man child, son of adam, urchin). (various references)

Catalan

noi (lad). (various references)

Chinese 

男孩 . (various references)

Cornish

map. (various references)

Czech

kluk (bloke, fellow, guy, Jack, knave, lad, son, youngster), chlapec (date, lad, laddie, man, son, youngster). (various references)

Danish

dreng (lad). (various references)

Dutch

knaap (lad, laddie), jongen (lad, laddie). (various references)

Esperanto

servisto (servant), knabo. (various references)

Faeroese

drongur (lad, page). (various references)

Farsi 

پسربچه (Callan, Lad, Page, Youngster), پسر (Son), خانه شاگرد (Page). (various references)

Finnish

poika (lad, son). (various references)

French

garçon. (various references)

Frisian

boai (lad), jonge (lad). (various references)

German

Junge (chap, cub, fellow, guy, Jack, kid, kitten, knave, lad, laddie, male child, nestling, offspring, oh boy!, pup, puppy, young, young one, youngster), knabe (lad, laddie). (various references)

Greek 

αγόρι. (various references)

Hawaiian

djalë (lad). (various references)

Hebrew 

ילד (child, son, youngster, youth). (various references)

Hungarian

fiú (bub, bucko, buster, groom, hard case, he, lad, son, yob, yobbo). (various references)

Icelandic

strákur (lad), piltur (lad), drengur (lad). (various references)

Indonesian

cowok (boy friend, guy, man), anak laki-laki (lad). (various references)

Irish

buachaill (laddie). (various references)

Italian

ragazzo (boyfriend, children, guy, Jack, kid, lad, nipper, youngster, youth). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

童子 (child, kid), 男児 (man, son), 男の児 (baby boy), 男の子 , 坊や , ボーア磁子 (balk, bauxite, boatswain, Boeing, Bohr magneton, bow, bow collar, bowing, boy friend, boy hunt, Boy Scouts, boy soprano, boyish, vocal, vocal solo, vocalist, vogue), 小童 (boy-servant, brat, messenger boy), 君　2 (master, Mr junior), 君 (master, Mr, you), ギターの弦 (fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gag, gal, gallery, gammon, gap, gather, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gift shop, gimmick, give up, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother), ガリレイ式望遠鏡 (Galilean telescope, Galileo, galley, garage, garage sale, garniture), カルスト地形 (caldera, cardamom, cartel, Cartier, clinical records, cultivator, culture, culture center, culture shock, karst, quartet, Quartier Latin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おとこのこ (baby boy), ボーイ , くん (master, Mr, native Japanese readingof a Chinese character), ぼうや, どうじ (child, concurrent, kid, no change, same time, simultaneous, synchronous, the same character, the same event), こわっぱ (boy-servant, brat, messenger boy), ギャルソン (male waiter), ガルソンヌ , カルソン , だんじ (man, son). (various references)

Korean 

소년 (lad). (various references)

Lombard

giovinòtt (lad). (various references)

Luganda

mulenzi. (various references)

Manx

scollag (lad, scholar, stripling, youngster, youth), myrneen (honey, sweetheart, Valentine, well-beloved), guilley (batman, caddie, follower, henchman, lackey, lad, linkman, nipper, page, satellite, tool, usher, verger, young male servant), boie. (various references)

Maya

tus-beh (errand boy). (various references)

Norwegian

gutt (lad). (various references)

Papago

wiappo'oge'el. (various references)

Papiamen

chabalitu (lad), chabalito (lad). (various references)

Pig Latin

oybay.(various references)

Polish

chłopiec (lad). (various references)

Portuguese

rapaz (bob, fellow, go-soon, guy, he, house-boy, jockey, lad, laddie, sapling, stripling, youngling, youngster), menino (child, infant, kid, lad, laddie, little boy), criado (attendant, cad, dependant, dependent, domestic, footman, go-soon, groom, jackal, menial, minion, servant, servitor, valent, waiter). (various references)

Romanian

båiat (lad), bãiat de serviciu (bell-hop, page), bãiat (beggar, caddie, chap, child, fellow, guy, Jack, lad, scout, son, youngster, youth), tânãr (adolescent, childish, colt, juvenile, kid, lad, male, shaver, stripling, young, youngster, youth, youthful), puradel (urchin), picolo, pici (brat, chit, kid, nipper, urchin, whelp, youngster), nepot (descendant, grandson, nephew), mus, junel, june (green, stripling, young, youngster, youth), garson (waiter), fiu (child, descendant, son), fecior (footboy, lad, son, valet), copil (babe, baby, bairn, bantling, brat, child, chip, descendant, imp, infant, kid, offspring, papoose, peter pan, son, urchin). (various references)

Romansch

mat. (various references)

Russian 

мальчик (call-boy, house-boy, lad, man child, pot-boy, powder-monkey, youngster). (various references)

Scottish

balach (clown, fellow, lad), ponach, gille (lad, man-servant, youth). (various references)

Sepedi

moa
imane. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

učenik na brodu, sluga (ancillary, attendant, footman, lackey, lacquey, menial, servant, servitor, sice, understrapper), momak (bachelor, boyfriend, bugger, chap, gossoon, guy, jack, lad, skate, sport), dečko (beau, boyfriend), dečak (nipper, youngster). (various references)

Shona

mukomana. (various references)

Sicilian

picciottu. (various references)

Spanish

muchacho (Cully, lad, laddie, servant, youngster), chico (bairn, chap, child, fellow, infant, junior, kid, lad, laddie, little, Matey, small), criado (attendant, fostering, gillie, Jack, kept, man, menial, peon, retainer, scout, servant, server). (various references)

Sranan

boy (lad). (various references)

Swahili

mtumishi (attendant, servant). (various references)

Swazi

úm-fána. (various references)

Swedish

pojke (lad, laddie), yngling (lad, stripling, young man, youngling, youth), gosse (Johnny, lad). (various references)

Tagalog

bátang laláki (lad). (various references)

Thai

เด็กชาย, บ๋อย. (various references)

Tswana

mosimane. (various references)

Turkish

oğlan (catamite, lad, laddie, nipper). (various references)

Turkmen 

ogul (son), oglan. (various references)

Ukrainian

юнга (apprentice, cabin boy, shipboy), син (bairn, child, son), хлопець (boche, bod, chap, dog, duck, fellow, lad, youngster), бой, парубок (batch, boy friend, fellow, loon, zazoo). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu niên (teen-ager, teener, young), con trai (male, masculine), đại bác người lái máy bay. (various references)

Welsh

hogyn (lad, laddie), gwas (lad, servant), bachgen (laddie, son). (various references)

Yucatec

xi'paal (lad), paal (bairn, child, infant, lad, son). (various references)

Zulu

umfana (lad). (various references)

ku�. (various references)

boeiai dorai, paidion. (various references)

puer. (various references)

aperenâyûkô. (various references)

cnapa, cniht. (various references)

embuie. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "boy": boyar, boyard, boyards, boyarism, boyarisms, boyars, boychick, boychicks, boychik, boychiks, boycott, boycotted, boycotter, boycotters, boycotting, boycotts, boyfriend, boyfriends, boyhood, boyhoods, boyish, boyishly, boyishness, boyishnesses, boyla, boylas, boyo, boyos, boys, boysenberries, boysenberry. (additional references)

Words ending with "boy": attaboy, batboy, beachboy, bellboy, blackboy, bullyboy, busboy, callboy, carboy, choirboy, copyboy, cowboy, doughboy, flyboy, footboy, hautboy, highboy, homeboy, houseboy, linkboy, lowboy, maccaboy, maccoboy, newsboy, pageboy, paperboy, playboy, plowboy, postboy, potboy, schoolboy, shopboy, tallboy, tomboy. (additional references)

Words containing "boy": amboyna, amboynas, antiboycott, antiboycotts, batboys, beachboys, bellboys, blackboys, bullyboys, busboys, callboys, carboyed, carboys, choirboys, copyboys, cowboys, doughboys, flamboyance, flamboyances, flamboyancies, flamboyancy, flamboyant, flamboyantly, flamboyants, flyboys, footboys, hautboys, highboys, homeboys, houseboys, linkboys, lowboys, maccaboys, maccoboys, newsboys, pageboys, paperboys, playboys, plowboys, postboys, potboys, schoolboyish, schoolboys, shopboys, tallboys, tomboyish, tomboyishness, tomboyishnesses, tomboys, unflamboyant. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Boy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abuy, bby, bcy, bho, Bhoy, bioy, biy, biyo, Bloy, bly, Bmya, boay, boe, boey, bof, boi, boia, boie, boii, boix, Boj, boly, Booi, Booy, booya, boq, bory, boty, bou, bouy, bov, bovy, boya, boyb, boye, boyf, Boyko, boyl, boym, boyn, boyo, Boyt, boyu, bozy, broy, bsy, bty, Buie, byj, Byk, byo, byob, byon, byor, byou, byoy, byv, Byw, eoy, Ioy, Mbiyu, Mboyi, obie, obj, oboy, Oby, oy, Qbo, voy, yoy, zoy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: yob.

-1 letter: bo, by, oy, yo.

+1 letter: body, bogy, bony, boxy, boyo, boys, buoy, doby, goby, obey, orby, sybo, toby, yobs.

+2 letters: bayou, blowy, bobby, bogey, boggy, boney, bonny, booby, boogy, boomy, booty, boozy, borty, bosky, bossy, bothy, bousy, boyar, boyla, boyos, brosy, buoys, cobby, corby, dobby, ebony, forby, hobby, lobby, looby, nobby, nobly, obeys, outby, womby, yobbo.

+3 letters: barony, baryon, batboy, bayamo, bayous, betony, beyond, biopsy, blocky, bloody, blooey, bloomy, blotty, blousy, blowby, blowsy, blowzy, bodily, bogeys, boldly, bolshy, bombyx, boogey, bosomy, botany, botchy, botfly, bouncy, bounty, bowery, bowyer, boyard, boyars, boyish, boylas, briony, brolly, bronzy, broody, broomy, brothy, browny, bryony, buoyed, busboy, buyout, bygone, byroad, byword, bywork, carboy, corymb, cowboy, cyborg, doubly, embody, emboly, embryo, flyboy, forbye, foreby, globby, gobony, goodby, imbody, knobby, kybosh, lowboy, nobody, obeyed, obeyer, outbuy, outbye, potboy, rebody, skybox, slobby, snobby, syboes, symbol, tomboy, wobbly, yobbos.