Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boy attending school.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boy belonging to or attending a school.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective characteristic of a schoolboy, especially being
cheeky ,clumsy and socially unaware. - noun A
boy attending school .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boy attending school
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Examples
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The Commonwealth's attorney occupied the floor for an hour, during which he ridiculed what he termed the schoolboy tales from his youthful opponent.
Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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But in a reflection of the global nature of modern sailing Mr Thompson's triumph involved sailing on a French yacht and communicating with the largely Gallic crew using what he describes as "schoolboy French".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Patrick Sawer 2012
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But in a reflection of the global nature of modern sailing Mr Thompson's triumph involved sailing on a French yacht and communicating with the largely Gallic crew using what he describes as "schoolboy French".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Patrick Sawer 2012
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But in a reflection of the global nature of modern sailing Mr Thompson's triumph involved sailing on a French yacht and communicating with the largely Gallic crew using what he describes as "schoolboy French".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Patrick Sawer 2012
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But in a reflection of the global nature of modern sailing Mr Thompson's triumph involved sailing on a French yacht and communicating with the largely Gallic crew using what he describes as "schoolboy French".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Patrick Sawer 2012
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This applause for someone being a comp schoolboy is as much as anything a sympton of the terribly middle class crowd you get at Lib Dem party conferences, is it not?
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I hear the word discipline and I picture Tory ministers in schoolboy uniforms with oranges in their mouths, tights over their heads, and a latex-clad dominatrix caning their hairy, flabby buttocks.
"Just When I Thought I Was Out..." Hal Duncan 2004
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I hear the word discipline and I picture Tory ministers in schoolboy uniforms with oranges in their mouths, tights over their heads, and a latex-clad dominatrix caning their hairy, flabby buttocks.
Archive 2004-09-01 Hal Duncan 2004
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Right through our national life we have got to fight against privilege, against the notion that a half-witted public-schoolboy is better fitted for command than an intelligent mechanic.
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But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow, for the matter in hand; and many a schoolboy is a better reasoner than he.
The Purloined Letter 2006
brtom commented on the word schoolboy
-- That model schoolboy, Stephen said, would find Hamlet's musings about the afterlife of his princely soul, the improbable, insignificant and undramatic monologue, as shallow as Plato's.
Joyce, Ulysses, 9
January 5, 2007