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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1360592" data-attributes="member: 45230">boynoun, often attributive \ˈbȯi\: a male child: a young man: a usually young man from a specified kind of placeFull Definition of BOY1often offensive :&nbsp; a male servant2a :&nbsp; a male child from birth to adulthoodb :&nbsp; <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/son" target="_blank">son</a>c :&nbsp; an immature male &lt;separate the men from the boys&gt; &lt;boy genius&gt;d :&nbsp; <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweetheart" target="_blank">sweetheart</a>, <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beau" target="_blank">beau</a>3a :&nbsp; one native to a given place &lt;local boy&gt;b :&nbsp; <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fellow" target="_blank">fellow</a>, <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/person" target="_blank">person</a> &lt;the boys at the office&gt;c —used interjectionally to express intensity of feeling &lt;boy, what a game&gt;<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boy" target="_blank">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boy</a>Notice the primary definition which is listed first is a male child. And it can be used in an offensive way but there is no mention of race. According to the dictionary that is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1360592, member: 45230"] [SIZE=5][B]boy[/B][/SIZE] [I]noun[/I], [I]often attributive[/I] \ˈbȯi\ : a male child : a young man : a usually young man from a specified kind of place [SIZE=5][B]Full Definition of [I]BOY[/I][/B][/SIZE] 1 [I]often offensive[/I] [B]:[/B] a male servant 2 [I]a[/I] [B]:[/B] a male child from birth to adulthood [I]b[/I] [B]:[/B] [URL='http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/son']son[/URL] [I]c[/I] [B]:[/B] an immature male <separate the men from the [I]boys[/I]> <[I]boy[/I] genius> [I]d[/I] [B]:[/B] [URL='http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweetheart']sweetheart[/URL], [URL='http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beau']beau[/URL] 3 [I]a[/I] [B]:[/B] one native to a given place <local [I]boy[/I]> [I]b[/I] [B]:[/B] [URL='http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fellow']fellow[/URL], [URL='http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/person']person[/URL] <the [I]boys[/I] at the office> [I]c[/I] —used interjectionally to express intensity of feeling <[I]boy[/I], what a game> [url]http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boy[/url] Notice the primary definition which is listed first is a male child. And it can be used in an offensive way but there is no mention of race. According to the dictionary that is. [/QUOTE]

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