| amboyna | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: padauk, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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| (noun) mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus | Synonyms: Andaman redwood |
| bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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| bootboys | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: skinheads |
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| boy | (noun) a youthful male person | Synonyms: male child |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man | - |
| (noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown man | - |
| (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: son |
| boycott | (noun) a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies | - |
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| (verb) refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with | - |
| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| boyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boylike, schoolboyish |
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| boyishly | (adverb) like a boy | Synonyms: boylike |
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| boyishness | (noun) being characteristic of a boy | - |
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| boylike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, schoolboyish |
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| (adverb) like a boy | Synonyms: boyishly |
| boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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| (noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| bullyboy | (noun) a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
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| busboy | (noun) a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | Synonyms: waiter's assistant |
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| carboy | (noun) a large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container | - |
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| choirboy | (noun) a boy who sings in a choir | - |
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| cowboy | (noun) someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles) | - |
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| (noun) a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging | Synonyms: rodeo rider |
| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowman |
| dayboy | (noun) a day boarder who is a boy | - |
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| doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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| (noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
| fanboy | (noun) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media | - |
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| flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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| flamboyant | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, florid |
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| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: showy, splashy |
| (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
| flamboyantly | (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flashily, showily |
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| hautboy | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, oboe |
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| highboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: tallboy |
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| homeboy | (noun) a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown | - |
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| (noun) a fellow male member of a youth gang | - |
| linkboy | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkman |
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| lowboy | (noun) a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs | - |
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| newsboy | (noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: carrier |
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| pageboy | (noun) a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward | - |
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| (noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: page |
| paperboy | (noun) a boy who sells or delivers newspapers | - |
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| playboy | (noun) a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure | Synonyms: Corinthian, man-about-town |
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| ploughboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: plowboy |
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| plowboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: ploughboy |
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| potboy | (noun) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores | Synonyms: potman |
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| sandboy | (noun) a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy' | - |
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| schoolboy | (noun) a boy attending school | - |
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| schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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| showboy | (noun) a man who dances in a chorus line | - |
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| stableboy | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableman |
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| tallboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: highboy |
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| tomboy | (noun) a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | Synonyms: hoyden, romp |
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| tomboyish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: hoydenish |
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| tomboyishness | (noun) masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women) | Synonyms: hoydenism |
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