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Definition: Newsboy |
NewsboyNoun1. A boy who delivers newspapers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "newsboy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonym: NewsboySynonym: carrier (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Messenger | Commissionaire; errand boy, chore boy; newsboy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Newsboy (1905) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | New York Star newsboy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Newsboy on main street, Montrose, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Newsboy, Iowa City, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Newsboy, Newark, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mexican newsboy, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Potato peddler and newsboy, market, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Aberdeen, South Dakota. Newsboy selling defense savings stamps. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C. Newsboy at Knoxville bus terminal. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Newsboy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Newsboy" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
newsboy hat | 43 |
newsboy cap | 37 |
newsboy | 26 |
jasper newsboy | 12 |
merlin newsboy | 8 |
luling newsboy | 3 |
newsboy photo | 3 |
1899 newsboy strike | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "newsboy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpërndarës gazetash (newsman), gazetashitës (news agent, newsdealer, newshawk, newsman, newsvendor, newsy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вестникарче (newshawk, newsy, paper boy). (various references) | |
Czech | kamelot (news-boy). (various references) | |
Farsi | پسرروزنامه فروش . (various references) | |
Finnish | sanomalehtipoika. (various references) | |
German | zeitungsjunge (newspaper boy, paperboy). (various references) | |
Greek | μικρόσ εφημεριδοπώλησ, εφημεριδοπώλησ (news dealer, newsvendor). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rikkancs (newsman, newsmen, paperboy), újságárus (mercury, news vendor, newsagent, newsdealer, news-man, newspaper boy, newspaperman). (various references) | |
Indonesian | loper koran. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ewsboynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jornaleiro (dataller, day-laborer, day-labourer, daysman, daytaler, jobber, newsman, paperboy, peon). (various references) | |
Romanian | vânzãtor de ziare (news agent, paper boy). (various references) | |
Russian | газетчик (news-man, news-vendor, newsy, paper boy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | raznosač novina (news-boy, paper boy). (various references) | |
Spanish | vendedor de periódicos (newsagent, newsdealer, newshawk, newsman, newsvendor). (various references) | |
Swedish | tidningsbud (paper boy). (various references) | |
Thai | เ"็กส่งหนังสือพิมพ์. (various references) | |
Turkish | gazeteci çocuk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рознощик газет, газетяр (newshawk, newshawker, newsman, newsvendor, pressman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "newsboy": newsboys. (additional references) | |
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"Newsboy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nesseby, newby, newsbook. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-o-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: besnow. | |
-2 letters: bones, boney, bowse, ebons, ebony, enows, newsy, nosey, obeys, owsen, snowy, yowes. | |
-3 letters: bens, beys, bone, bony, bows, boys, byes, ebon, enow, eons, nebs, news, nobs, noes, nose, nosy, nows, obes, obey, ones, owes, owns, owse, oyes, sewn, snob, snow, snye, sone, sown, swob, sybo, syne, webs, wens, woes, wons, wyes. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-o-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: newsboys. | |
+2 letters: snowberry. | |
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