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Noun
S:
(n)
cub
,
greenhorn
,
rookie
(an awkward and inexperienced youth)
S:
(n)
cub
,
lad
,
laddie
,
sonny
,
sonny boy
(a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy))
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
/
sister term
S:
(n)
male child
,
boy
(a youthful male person)
"the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"
S:
(n)
altar boy
(a boy serving as an acolyte)
S:
(n)
ball boy
(a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players)
S:
(n)
bat boy
((baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment)
S:
(n)
cub
,
lad
,
laddie
,
sonny
,
sonny boy
(a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy))
S:
(n)
catamite
(a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man)
S:
(n)
farm boy
(a boy who has grown up on a farm)
S:
(n)
Fauntleroy
,
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(an excessively polite and well-dressed boy)
S:
(n)
plowboy
,
ploughboy
(a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow)
S:
(n)
schoolboy
(a boy attending school)
S:
(n)
Scout
(a Boy Scout or Girl Scout)
S:
(n)
shop boy
(a young male shop assistant)
S:
(n)
cub
,
young carnivore
(the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion)
Verb
S:
(v)
cub
(give birth to cubs)
"bears cub every year"