Boy
Boy noun - A male human offspring.
Usage example: his boy is taller than he is
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Synonyms for Boy
Man-child and boy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Man-child" instead a noun "Boy".
Man-child
Both words in one sentence
- Pee-wee Herman is an ambiguous man-child who is always referred to as a "boy" but is played by the obviously adult Paul Reubens.
Source: Dawson Casting / Film - Knave is a man-child in every sense of the world, having the brattiness and stubbornness of a young boy.
Source: Wiki / The Shipof Fools -
Though to be fair, this was a 12 year old boy who'd just watched his parents get murdered, kidnapped by a belligerent man-child dressed like a giant bat who tells him he's going to be a 'detective', and forced to live in a cave where he's told to eat cave-dwelling rodents.
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Man-child and Boy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/boy/man-child
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