highschoolboy
English
Etymology
highschool + boy, on the pattern of schoolboy.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hīʹsko͞olboi, IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ.skuːlbɔɪ/
Noun
highschoolboy (plural highschoolboys)
- (rare, nonstandard) A male student of a high school; compare highschoolgirl.
- 1949: Willem Bordewijk, Een onderzoek naar de factoren, die beroepswens en beroepsvoorstelling van de proletarische jeugd beinvloeden, page 32 (J. B. Wolter)
- The influence of father’s occupation on the vocational choices of highschoolboys.
- 1968: Dennis Brutus, Letters to Martha: And Other Poems from a South African Prison, page 22 (reprint edition; Heinemann Educational; →ISBN, 9780435900465)
- A studious highschoolboy he looked
— as in fact I later found he was —
bespectacled, with soft-curved face
and withdrawn protected air:
and I marvelled, envied him
so untouched he seemed to be
in that hammering brutal atmosphere.
- A studious highschoolboy he looked
- 1990: Bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai univrsity, volume 21, issue 2, page 23 (関西大学社会学部)
- As a numerical example, the factor solutions of the YG Personality Inventory obtained from 3 groups of highschoolboys were checked numerically by means of sum of squares of differences and also of reference structure.
- 1949: Willem Bordewijk, Een onderzoek naar de factoren, die beroepswens en beroepsvoorstelling van de proletarische jeugd beinvloeden, page 32 (J. B. Wolter)
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