boylet
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]boylet (plural boylets)
- A male infant or very young boy.
- 1894, The Halcyon - Volume 10, page 43:
- Dear little boylets and little girllets, don't play with any more tin cans, or at least if you do, do put them away when you are through with them, and don't hang them on the trees.
- 1900, Popular Science News - Volume 34, page 101:
- Dr. Aar's experiments, given in the Zelts. Pedag. Psych., show that the girlets mostly prefer green and the boylets the combinations of blue.
- 1918, The Youth's Companion - Volume 92, Part 2, page 414:
- A final protest is in order when we read of “summer suits for the boylets.”
- 1963, Michigan's Voices - Volume 3, Issue 3, page 69:
- The stupid things that boylets did I downright just refused to.
- 1971, The Cowboys, page 146:
- And the next time I catch one of you stink-pants little baby boylets just dropping in his plate and ankling off, I'm gonna tear his arm off and beat his head in with it, stomp his ribs, and piss on what's left, you hear?
- 2012, Rachael Johns, Jilted, →ISBN:
- And lastly, thanks to my long-suffering family – to Mum, Craig, the boylets and my mum-in-law Ronice!
- A casual boyfriend
- 2000, Nick Carbó, Eileen Tabios, Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers, →ISBN:
- Her sister is on the phone with the latest of her many boylets.
- 2001, Maria Leonida Fres- Felix, Sup?, →ISBN, page 5:
- We're standing about 80 feet from the stage, hemmed in by another group of girls with their boylets on the right, and a group of boys who are checking us out on the left.
- 2017 December 7, Hannah Victoria Wabe, “Unexpected life lessons from 'Unexpectedly Yours'”, in Sun.Star Philippines:
- Their rebellious daughter (Julia Barretto) is alienated from her and wants to work in London to see her secret boylet (Jameson Blake).