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  • noun a day boarder who is a boy.

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  • noun a day boarder who is a boy

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Examples

  • Jason was a "dayboy" at the National Ballet School from the age of 10.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2009

  • This was no other than poor Jack Butts, who is a sort of small artist and picture-dealer by profession, and was a dayboy at

    Mens Wives 2006

  • I was a dayboy at a large school in a country town and absolutely innocent as to deed, thought, or knowledge.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • This was no other than poor Jack Butts, who is a sort of small artist and picture-dealer by profession, and was a dayboy at Slaughter House when we were there, and very serviceable in bringing in sausages, pots of pickles, and other articles of merchandise, which we could not otherwise procure.

    Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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