Schoolboy

Definition: Schoolboy

Schoolboy

Noun

1. A boy attending school.

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

Date "schoolboy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

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.

Knowledge

Known; Verb: ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace.

Learner

Schoolboy; fresh, freshman, frosh; junior soph, junior; senior soph, senior; sophister, sophomore; questionist.

Scholar

Schoolboy; (learner).

Crosswords: Schoolboy

Schoolboy prank? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

There was Hitler, first ranting, then cajoling, then perfectly rational then raging and stamping like a-- like the ringmaster of some freak circus! Goebbels, hopping from one foot to another like a-- like a schoolboy. Bormann hmph a vulture, perched in the corner, watching, listening, never speaking. (The Eagle Has Landed; writing credit: Jack Higgins; Tom Mankiewicz)

And this is Eric, the schoolboy who leads an exciting double life. (Bananaman; writing credit: Luigi Malerba)

I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like ("BROWN SUGAR"; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Hoosier Schoolboy (1937)

Schoolboy Father (1980)

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

Books

• A Russian Schoolboy (reference)

• A Russian Schoolboy (The World's Classics) (reference)

• Death of a Schoolboy (reference)

• Letters Between a Victorian Schoolboy and His Family, 1892-1895 (reference)

• Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Under careful supervision, this Sudan schoolboy is treating his classmates' eyes for trachoma. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..

Schoolboy acorn looking at signpost.Credit: Library of Congress.

Schoolboy who collects match folders. Caldwell, Idaho.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lille, Maine. French schoolboy.Credit: Library of Congress.

Rupert, Idaho. Schoolboy at swimming pool.Credit: Library of Congress.

Grade schoolboy of Portuguese descent. San Leandro, California.Credit: Library of Congress.

Schoolboy of Portuguese descent. San Leandro, California.Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington Court House, Ohio. A schoolboy, who rides to and from school daily on a Greyhound bus, waiting outside the depot.Credit: Library of Congress.

Schoolboy of Portuguese descent. San Leandro, California.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Worker Rights

China

Government officials have stated that the boy is being held for his own protection, and that he lives in Tibet and attends classes as a "normal schoolboy." The authorities also maintain that both boys are being well cared for and are receiving a good education. (references)

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

Expressions using "schoolboy": painstaking schoolboy ♦ public schoolboy. Additional references.

Beginning with "schoolboy": schoolboy-ish.

Ending with "schoolboy": ex-schoolboy, prep-schoolboy.

Albanian

shkollar (scholar), nxënës (apprentice, boy, disciple, follower, learner, Prentice, pupil, student), gjimnazist (college student). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلميذ (learner, pupil, school boy, student), ‏طالب (applicant, claim, demand, reclaim, scholar, school boy, student). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ученик (disciple, pupil, scholar, student). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�小学�"�, 學童 . (various references)

Czech

žák (disciple, pupil, student), školák (pupil, scholar). (various references)

Finnish

koulupoika. (various references)

French

lycéen (high school student, secondary school pupil), collégien, étudiant (scholar), élève (schoolgirl), écolier (scholar, schoolchild). (various references)

German

schuljunge, schüler (disciple, disciples, follower, pupil, pupils, scholar, schoolboys, sophomore, student). (various references)

Greek 

μαθητήσ σχολείου, μαθητήσ (disciple, learner, pupil, scholar). (various references)

Hungarian

iskolásfiú, diákfiú, éretlen kölyök, éretlen gyerek. (various references)

Italian

scolaro (pupil, scholar, schoolchild). (various references)

Korean 

남학생. (various references)

Manx

guilley scoill. (various references)

Pig Latin

oolboyschay

Portuguese

aluno de escola, aluno (Bob, listener, pupil, schoolchild, student). (various references)

Romanian

elev (collegian, disciple, follower, learner, novice, pupil, student, tyro), şcolar (pupil, scholar, scholastic, school, student), şcolãresc (school). (various references)

Russian 

школьник (schoolchildren). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

učenik (apprentice, disciple, learner, pupil, student). (various references)

Spanish

colegial (collegiate). (various references)

Swedish

skolpojke. (various references)

Turkish

erkek öğrenci, öğrenci (disciple, learner, pupil, pupilar, pupilary, pupillar, pupillary, scholar, schoolgirl, student). (various references)

Ukranian 

учень (apprentice, colleger, learner, novice, pupil), школяр (schoolchild). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nam sinh, học sinh trai. (various references)

scholasticus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "schoolboy": schoolboyish, schoolboys. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Schoolboy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schulhof. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: bolshy, cholos, choosy, school.

-4 letters: blocs, bolos, boyos, cholo, cloys, cohos, cools, cooly, hobos, hooly, lobos, lochs, locos, looby, obols, shool.

-5 letters: bloc, bolo, boos, bosh, boyo, boys, cloy, cobs, coho, cols, coly, cool, coos, cosh, cosy, coys, hobo, hobs, hols, holy, hoys, lobo, lobs, loch, loco, loos, obol, oohs, shoo, slob, solo, sybo, yobs.

+1 letter: schoolboys.

+3 letters: schoolboyish.

+4 letters: psychobiology.

+5 letters: psychobiologic.

53 63 68 6F 6F 6C 62 6F 79

⁼

...    -.-.    ....    ---    ---    .-..    -...    ---    -.--.

01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 01100010 01101111 01111001

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#108 &#98 &#111 &#121

0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C 0062 006F 0079

536974818178688191