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Sonny Boy

Definition: Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy

Noun

1. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).

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


Synonyms: Sonny Boy

Synonyms: cub (n), lad (n), laddie (n), sonny (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Sonny Boy

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Screenplays

If she wants you to dance, sonny boy, you've got to follow her lead. (Summer Rental; writing credit: Mark Reisman; Jeremy Stevens)

Movie/TV Titles

Sonny Boy (1955)

How God Came to Sonny Boy (1914)

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

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Commercial Usage: Sonny Boy

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Books

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Photo Album: Sonny Boy

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

I love you so, sonny boy!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sonny Boy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sonny boy

11

sonny boy terry

5

sonny boy lyrics

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Sonny Boy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-n-n-o-o-s-y-y"

-3 letters: bonny, boons, boson, boyos, noons, sonny.

-4 letters: bony, boon, boos, boyo, boys, nobs, noon, nosy, snob, soon, sybo, yobs.

-5 letters: boo, bos, boy, bys, nob, noo, nos, ons, sob, son, soy, syn, yob, yon.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sonny Boy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 6E 6E 79      42 6F 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01111001 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#110 &#110 &#121 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 006E 006E 0079      0042 006F 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53818080912368191

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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