Boyish

Definition

boy 1 /bↄÇ/ n ၁။ [C] ေယာက်္ားကေလး။ ေကာင္ကေလး။ He lived in Edinburgh as a boy. ❍ A group of boys were playing football in the street. ❍ How many boys are there in your class at school? See also OLD BOY ၂။ [C] သား။ The Joneses have two boys and a girl. ❍ Her eldest boy is at college. ၃။ [C] (esp in compounds) လုလင္။ ေကာင္ကေလး။ the paper-boy (ie the boy who delivers the newspapers). ၄။ the boys [pl] ( infml ) (အမ်ဳိးသား) အေပါင္းအသင္း၊ ေရာင္းရင္း တစ္သိုက္။ a night out with the boys (eg at a pub or bar) ❍ He plays football with the boys on Saturday afternoons. ❍ He likes to feel that he's one of the boys (ie accepted as part of the group). ❏ boyhood n [U,C usu sing ] (ေယာက်္ား) ကေလးဘဝ၊ ငယ္စဥ္ဘဝ။ a happy/unhappy/lonely boyhood ❍ boyhood friends. ❏ boyish adj ( usu approv ) (သြယ္သြယ္လ်လ် တက္တက္ ႂကြႂကြ) လုလင္ငယ္ေသြးတမွ်/ပမာ။ boyish ambitions/hopes/enthusiasm ❍ He/She has boyish good looks. ❏ boy scout n = SCOUT ၂ ❏ the boys in blue [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ရဲ။ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕။ ❏ boys will be boys [ IDM ] ( saying ) ႀကီးႀကီးငယ္ငယ္ ေယာက်္ားဟာ ေယာက်္ားေတြစ႐ိုက္အတိုင္း ေသာင္းက်န္းၾက မွာပါပဲ။ boy 2 /bↄÇ/ interj ( infml esp US ) (အံ့ဩ၊ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္၊ သက္သာရာရ၊ မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕ စသည့္ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားမႈကို ေဖာ္ျပရာတြင္သံုးသည့္ အာေမၮိတ္)။ ဟာ။ ဟယ္။ Boy, am I glad to see you!

Examples

1. A 10-year-old boy
2. [a little/small/young boy] : I’d been there for my holidays as a little boy.
3. Mr and Mrs Wylie have three boys and a girl.
4. Their little boy’s so naughty.
5. I met a boy in his mid-twenties and we started dating.
6. A local boy
7. He’s a country boy at heart.
8. The Minnesota farm boy became a national hero.
9. Friday night is his night out with the boys.
10. The boys played really well and deserved to win.
11. Down boy!
12. Here boy!
13. An errand/messenger boy