English words for 'Resembling a boy.'
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noun
- A male child.
- A young man.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- A younger such worker.
- (informal, especially with a possessive) A male friend.
- A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male pet, especially a dog.
- (BDSM) A male submissive.
- (informal, sometimes mildly derogatory) A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
- (endearing, colloquial) Any tangible object close to one's person; often used in emphatic forms such as bad boy.
- (endearing, diminutive) A male human younger than the speaker.
- (diminutive, especially with a possessive) A son of any age.
- (now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:
- (somewhat childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).
- (now offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age.
- (historical or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
- (historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
- a youthful male person
- a friendly informal reference to a grown man
- a male human offspring
- (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man
intj
verb
noun
noun
- a young person (especially a young man or boy)
- (countable) A young person.
- young people collectively
- an early period of development
- the time of life between childhood and maturity
- early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
- the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
- (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
- (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
- (uncountable, used as plural or singular) Young persons, collectively.
noun
noun
- (figurative) A youth.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
verb
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- To grow, to sprout.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- a boy or man
- (Commonwealth, especially UK and Ireland, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
- (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.
- (Commonwealth, especially Australia and New Zealand) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
noun
- a boy or man
- a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs
- (Southern US) A child.
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
- (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
- (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
- (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
verb
noun
- a boy or man
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a persistently annoying person
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse word.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) Fellow, person. (From the replacement of a derogatory or affectionate cuss (“curse word”) like son of a bitch with the word cuss.)
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse.
verb
noun
- a boy or man
- a man who is the lover of a man or woman
- one of a pair
- a person who is member of one's class or profession
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a member of a learned society
- an informal form of address for a man
- (chiefly in the plural) An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.
- (chiefly British) A scholar appointed to a fellowship, that is, a paid academic position held for a certain period which usually requires the scholar to conduct research.
- A (senior) member of a learned or professional society.
- Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.
- (informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
- (chiefly in the negative) A person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing.
- An honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person (often an alumna or alumnus).
- Originally, one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; now, a senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution.
- (US) A senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development.
- (Canada, US) A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training program).
- (specifically, British, historical) A senior member of an Inn of Court.
- (US) A member of a college or university who manages its business interests.
- (chiefly in the plural) An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.
- (chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
- (also attributively) A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.
- (chiefly in the plural) One in the same condition, or situation of need, as another.
- (by extension, often humorous or ironic) An animal or object.
noun
- a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
- the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion
- an awkward and inexperienced youth
- The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.
- (gay slang) a younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.
- (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
- (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
- Acronym of cashed-up bogan.
- Synonym of cub reporter.
- (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.
- Clipping of cub porn or cub art.
- A furry character that is a child (i.e. under the age of adulthood).
verb
noun
- (figurative) A child.
- A Brussels sprout.
- A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
- An edible variety of such, grown and intended as food; examples include bean, alfalfa, kale, and others.
- A bean sprout.
- A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
- a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
verb
- (transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.
- (horticulture, intransitive) To grow from seed; to germinate.
- (figurative, intransitive) To emerge or appear haphazardly.
- (transitive) To deprive of sprouts.
- (figurative, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface.
- (intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
adj
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
pron
noun
- A person who is four years old.
- (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
- (basketball, countable) A power forward.
- (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- The shell itself.
- The crew rowing in a four boat.
- Four o'clock.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
num
adj
noun
noun
- A male child, especially one younger than ten years of age.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A small saveloy often consumed with tomato sauce at parties, also known as a cocktail sausage or a cheerio.
- (derogatory) A male perceived to be weaker than or subservient to another one; or, a boy who is too young for his job.
noun
adj
- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- lowercase
- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
adv
noun
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
verb
noun
noun
noun
- The head boy of a school.
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- (aviation) A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- A chief or leader.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
- a policeman in charge of a precinct
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- the leader of a group of people
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (endearing) A child or young person.
- A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
- (Australia) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
- (UK, slang) The vagina.
- (UK, informal, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
- A male salmon after spawning.
- (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- (UK, naval slang) A torpedo.
- (Australia, slang) An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
- A fool.
- salted and smoked herring
adj
verb
- To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- (by extension) To damage or treat with smoke.
- (cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
- To punish by spanking or caning.
- To utterly defeat or humiliate.
- To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
adj
noun
- (humorous, sometimes mildly derogatory) A youth; a lad.
- A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
- An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig.
- A house sparrow.
- One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace.
- A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
- A brad, or nail without a head.
- a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
verb
noun
- A male child.
- A young man.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- A younger such worker.
- (informal, especially with a possessive) A male friend.
- A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male pet, especially a dog.
- (BDSM) A male submissive.
- (informal, sometimes mildly derogatory) A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
- (endearing, colloquial) Any tangible object close to one's person; often used in emphatic forms such as bad boy.
- (endearing, diminutive) A male human younger than the speaker.
- (diminutive, especially with a possessive) A son of any age.
- (now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:
- (somewhat childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).
- (now offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age.
- (historical or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
- (historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
- a youthful male person
- a friendly informal reference to a grown man
- a male human offspring
- (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man
intj
verb
noun
noun
- a young person (especially a young man or boy)
- (countable) A young person.
- young people collectively
- an early period of development
- the time of life between childhood and maturity
- early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
- the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
- (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
- (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
- (uncountable, used as plural or singular) Young persons, collectively.
noun
noun
- (figurative) A youth.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
verb
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- To grow, to sprout.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- a boy or man
- (Commonwealth, especially UK and Ireland, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
- (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.
- (Commonwealth, especially Australia and New Zealand) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
noun
- a boy or man
- a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs
- (Southern US) A child.
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
- (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
- (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
- (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
verb
noun
- a boy or man
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a persistently annoying person
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse word.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) Fellow, person. (From the replacement of a derogatory or affectionate cuss (“curse word”) like son of a bitch with the word cuss.)
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse.
verb
noun
- a boy or man
- a man who is the lover of a man or woman
- one of a pair
- a person who is member of one's class or profession
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a member of a learned society
- an informal form of address for a man
- (chiefly in the plural) An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.
- (chiefly British) A scholar appointed to a fellowship, that is, a paid academic position held for a certain period which usually requires the scholar to conduct research.
- A (senior) member of a learned or professional society.
- Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.
- (informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
- (chiefly in the negative) A person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing.
- An honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person (often an alumna or alumnus).
- Originally, one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; now, a senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution.
- (US) A senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development.
- (Canada, US) A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training program).
- (specifically, British, historical) A senior member of an Inn of Court.
- (US) A member of a college or university who manages its business interests.
- (chiefly in the plural) An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.
- (chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
- (also attributively) A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.
- (chiefly in the plural) One in the same condition, or situation of need, as another.
- (by extension, often humorous or ironic) An animal or object.
noun
- a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
- the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion
- an awkward and inexperienced youth
- The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.
- (gay slang) a younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.
- (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
- (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
- Acronym of cashed-up bogan.
- Synonym of cub reporter.
- (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.
- Clipping of cub porn or cub art.
- A furry character that is a child (i.e. under the age of adulthood).
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- (figurative) A child.
- A Brussels sprout.
- A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
- An edible variety of such, grown and intended as food; examples include bean, alfalfa, kale, and others.
- A bean sprout.
- A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
- a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
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- (transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.
- (horticulture, intransitive) To grow from seed; to germinate.
- (figurative, intransitive) To emerge or appear haphazardly.
- (transitive) To deprive of sprouts.
- (figurative, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface.
- (intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
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- A person who is four years old.
- (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
- (basketball, countable) A power forward.
- (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- The shell itself.
- The crew rowing in a four boat.
- Four o'clock.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
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- A male child, especially one younger than ten years of age.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A small saveloy often consumed with tomato sauce at parties, also known as a cocktail sausage or a cheerio.
- (derogatory) A male perceived to be weaker than or subservient to another one; or, a boy who is too young for his job.
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- The head boy of a school.
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- (aviation) A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- A chief or leader.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
- a policeman in charge of a precinct
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- the leader of a group of people
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
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- (endearing) A child or young person.
- A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
- (Australia) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
- (UK, slang) The vagina.
- (UK, informal, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
- A male salmon after spawning.
- (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- (UK, naval slang) A torpedo.
- (Australia, slang) An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
- A fool.
- salted and smoked herring
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- To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- (by extension) To damage or treat with smoke.
- (cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
- To punish by spanking or caning.
- To utterly defeat or humiliate.
- To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
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- (humorous, sometimes mildly derogatory) A youth; a lad.
- A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
- An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig.
- A house sparrow.
- One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace.
- A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
- A brad, or nail without a head.
- a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
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- Very young, of childhood age.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
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- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
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- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
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- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
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- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
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- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person