(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”.
Sissy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That has raised the possibility that their removal was sanctioned by the new heads of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi and Mohamed El-Assar, in order to avert a greater challenge to their authority in later months.
(2) A decade later the story of his abduction at the hands of General Pinochet's troops was told in 1982 by film-maker Costa-Gavras in Missing , an Oscar-winner starring Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon.
(3) Tantawi's replacement, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, was formerly the head of military intelligence.
(4) The composer Charles Ives, for instance, spent his whole career in a sort of cringe, fearfully anticipating the accusation that to make music was a “sissy” activity.
(5) Now led by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), the self-styled King-Beyond-the Wall, the Free People look poised to descend on the sissy south in season three, in a campaign perhaps modelled on Bonnie Prince Charlie's raids into the heartland of the effete sassenachs of yore, or the Vikings marching on Stamford Bridge.
(6) The society I come from is still very patriachal and men are expected to be above women, and anyone who comes in with new ideas about equality is seen as a “sissy”.
(7) "O ld age," as Bette Davis said , "is not for sissies."
(8) Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said on Tuesday his country deeply regretted Regeni’s death and intended to “transparently” continue its “full cooperation” with Italy to resolve the case and bring the culprits to justice.
(9) Then you had somebody like Sissy (Papiss Cissé) he was the next goal scorer with something like eight.
(10) The new Morsi-appointed defence minister is Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
(11) Morsi replaced Tantawi with the head of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi.
(12) Sissy Spacek in the movie version of Carrie, Kathy Bates in Misery, Tim Curry in It and Danny Lloyd in The Shining.
(13) Sissy Vovou Before they will release €7.2bn in aid that Greece needs to pay public-sector salaries and pensions and repay €1.6bn in IMF loans, those lenders want further reforms to the pensions system, including penalties to put people off taking early retirement and more cuts to even the lowest pensions.
(14) The magazine polled readers for their choice, and the winner was Egyptian general Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who didn't make the top 10 of Time's final list.
(15) The particular corner is not just any corner in the city – as Carlos Monsiváis describes it in La Mano Temblorosa de una Hechicera: “San Juan de Letrán was, back then, not a mere street, it was the center of life in the capital, of the life that was worth living (…) there began and ended the world of the prohibited, of that which only had a place in the sobremesa of solitary men (…) In that street walked drivers and politicians, hookers and women of high society, machos and sissies … I think it was in San Juan de Letrán where gays started coming out of their holes to start moving about, unhindered, and go after whomever allowed it.” As a young man Novo, later considered one of the major poets of the Contemporáneos generation (the Mexican modernist poets), lived a double, liminal existence between his family’s regime of typical gente decente and the forbidden underworlds of homosexual men in the still highly reactionary 1920s.
(16) Recently, trailblazers like Sissy Nobby and Big Dipper took the risks that made it easier for others to follow.
(17) The most important aspects of the questionnaire dealt with six "childhood indicators" of later adult homosexuality: (1) interest in dolls, (2) cross-dressing, (3) preference for company of girls rather than boys in childhood games, (4) preference for company of older women rather than older men, (5) being regarded by other boys as a sissy, (6) sexual interest in other boys rather than girls in childhood sex play.
(18) If they think they will come across as a nit-picker or a ‘sissy’, it’s far rarer.” Stephen Burrell, 27, is a PhD student at Durham University researching domestic violence prevention work with young men.
(19) Replacing Tantawi is the head of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi – one of the generals who defended the use of "virginity tests" against female protesters in March 2011 – with El-Assar as his deputy.
(20) Bette Davis was right when she said: “Old age is not for sissies.” In later life, after a break-up or death of a partner, you can’t go off to work, or anywhere much, to distract yourself from thoughts of what you have lost and miss.