highschoolboy

English

Etymology

From highschool + boy, on the pattern of schoolboy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hīʹsko͞olboi, IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.skuːlbɔɪ/

Noun

highschoolboy (plural highschoolboys)

1. (rare, nonstandard) A male student of a high school.

   Coordinate term: highschoolgirl

   • 1949: Willem Bordewijk, Een onderzoek naar de factoren, die beroepswens en beroepsvoorstelling van de proletarische jeugd beinvloeden, page 32 (J. B. Wolter)

     The influence of father’s occupation on the vocational choices of highschoolboys.

   • 1968, Dennis Brutus, Letters to Martha: And Other Poems from a South African Prison, reprint edition, Heinemann Educational, →ISBN, page 22, →ISBN:

     A studious highschoolboy he looked
     — as in fact I later found he was —
     bespectacled, with soft-curved face
     and withdrawn protected air:
     and I marvelled, envied him
     so untouched he seemed to be
     in that hammering brutal atmosphere.

   • 1990: Bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai university, volume 21, issue 2, page 23 (関西大学社会学部)

     As a numerical example, the factor solutions of the YG Personality Inventory obtained from 3 groups of highschoolboys were checked numerically by means of sum of squares of differences and also of reference structure.