boy

1. is a type of: male, male person - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
   subtypes:

   • altar boy - a boy serving as an acolyte
   • ball boy - a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players
   • bat boy - (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment
   • cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy - a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
   • catamite - a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man
   • farm boy - a boy who has grown up on a farm
   • fauntleroy, little lord fauntleroy - an excessively polite and well-dressed boy
   • ploughboy, plowboy - a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow
   • schoolboy - a boy attending school
   • scout - a Boy Scout or Girl Scout
   • shop boy - a young male shop assistant
   same as: male child
2. is a type of: adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
   subtypes:

   • broth of a boy, broth of a man - an outstanding person; as if produced by boiling down a savory broth
   • one of the boys - a man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men
3. is a type of: male offspring, man-child - a child who is male
   subtypes:

   • jnr, jr, junior - a son who has the same first name as his father
   • mama's boy, mamma's boy, mother's boy - a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests
   specific instances: esau - (Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage
   same as: son

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