(n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
(v. t.) To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(2) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(3) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(4) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(5) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(6) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
(7) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(8) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(9) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(10) With baseline measures and body mass index controlled for, analyses of covariance showed that adults had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did children; men had greater blood pressure responses to all stressors than did women; and high school boys had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did high school girls.
(11) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(12) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
(13) In girls and boys, the mean concentration of both gonadotropins increased with advancing puberty.
(14) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(15) I’ve been at United ever since I was a little boy and I had a great time there.
(16) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(17) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(18) Boys performed better than girls, and older children were more accurate than younger ones.
(19) The crus has been elongation 8 cm by Ilizarov method in 9 years old boy and 5 cm elongation of the tibia has been achieved with the use of Bastiani method in 8 years old girl.
(20) The boy also said Waqar would call him names including “paedo”.
Brat
Definition:
(n.) A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
(n.) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
(n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.
(n.) The young of an animal.
(n.) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(2) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
(3) The hack by the group Guardians of Peace revealed email conversations between Sony executives and actors, discussing the likes of Pitt’s wife Angelina Jolie, who was described as a “minimally talented spoiled brat” by producer Scott Rudin.
(4) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(5) It’s not only the very young who can be immature comical brats when the music doesn’t go their way.
(6) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
(7) By the time the dust finally settled in Virginia's primary election earthquake just 7,212 votes separated the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, from his Tea Party nemesis, David Brat.
(8) In the course of their exchanges, Rudin called Angelina Jolie “a minimally talented spoiled brat” with a “rampaging ego”.
(9) Some felt it was the most likable she had ever been while others believed it to be evidence that she was nothing but a spoilt brat.
(10) The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said on Twitter : "Some of these Tories are foul-mouthed spoilt little brats and now one caught by the Sun."
(11) Rudin described the star as “a minimally talented spoiled brat” in possession of a “rampaging ego”.
(12) With strong support from business groups – which back Republlican leaders on immigration reform – Cantor used his substantial funding advantage to run aggressive attack ads against the relatively unknown Brat.
(13) I just came up short and the voters elected another candidate.” But the Republican heavyweight, once seen as a natural successor to speaker John Boehner, insisted he had not neglected his constituents as Brat has claimed.
(14) "This is a miracle from God," said a triumphant Brat.
(15) But his defeat by Brat, a relatively unknown economics professor, will send shockwaves through a party leadership that thought it had survived the 2014 primary election season with relatively limited damage from the Tea Party.
(16) It sold nearly 3m copies and established Franzen as one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but, thanks to his perceived snub to Winfrey, it also established his reputation as, variously, an "ego-blinded snob" (Boston Globe), a "pompous prick" (Newsweek) and a "spoiled, whiny little brat" (Chicago Tribune).
(17) Cantor’s primary opponent in Virginia’s seventh congressional district, a professor named David Brat, was not backed by any of the national Tea Party organisations.
(18) In one of Sony Pictures’ many hacked emails , producer Scott Rudin called Jolie, an Oscar winner and recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award , “a minimally talented spoiled brat”.
(19) She's dragged herself from unloved brat to brass to millionaire (via some dead husbands, but let's be real, a good few Guardian readers would do the same if a plush three-bed Victorian terrace was their prize).
(20) But although turnout in the open primary was 28 per cent higher than normal, Cantor’s total vote dropped from 37,698 in 2012 to 28,898 and Brat did best in heavily Republican precincts.