Boy

Boy

A boy is a young male human, usually child or adolescent. When he becomes an adult he's described as a man. The most apparent thing that differentiates a boy from a girl is that a boy typically has a penis while girls do not. However some intersex children with ambiguous genitals, and biologically female transgender children, may also be classified or self-identify as a "boy".

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Famous quotes containing the word boy:

    The boy stood on the burning deck
    Whence all but he had fled.
    Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)

    Falstaff. I am old, I am old.
    Doll Tearsheet. I love thee better than I love e’er a scurvy
    young boy of them all.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The boy stood on the burning deck,
    Whence all but he had fled;
    The flame that lit the battle’s wreck,
    Shone round him o’er the dead.

    Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
    As born to rule the storm;
    A creature of heroic blood,
    A proud though childlike form.
    Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)