paperboy

English

Etymology

From paper +‎ boy.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

paperboy (plural paperboys)

2. A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.

   Synonym: newsboy (sometimes synonymous)

   Hypernyms: boy, < person

   Coordinate terms: papergirl, newsgirl

   Our current paperboy does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old paperboy sometimes would fling it into the bushes!

Translations

male who delivers newspapers

• Bulgarian: вестникарче n (vestnikarče)
• Catalan: repartidor de diaris m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 報童 / 报童 (zh) (bàotóng)

• Danish: avisdreng c
• Finnish: lehdenjakaja (fi)
• French: livreur de journaux m, camelot (fr) m (Canada)
• German: Zeitungsausträger m, Zeitungsjunge (de) m
• Hungarian: újságkihordó (hu), lapkihordó (hu)
• Icelandic: blaðburðardrengur m, blaðadrengur m, (more generally) blaðberi (is) m
• Irish: giolla páipéar m
• Italian: ragazzo dei giornali m, strillone (it) m
• Japanese: 新聞配達 (しんぶんはいたつ, shinbun haitatsu)
• Marathi: पेपरवाला m (peparvālā)
• Portuguese: ardina m
• Romanian: băiat cu ziare m
• Russian: газе́тчик (ru) m (gazétčik)
• Spanish: repartidor de periódicos m
• Welsh: bachgen danfon papurau m, hogyn papur newydd (North)
• Zazaki: rocnamegêr m