unboy
English
Etymology
un- + boy
Verb
unboy (third-person singular simple present unboys, present participle unboying, simple past and past participle unboyed)
- (transitive) To divest of the traits of a boy.
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Usage notes
- The forms unboys and unboying are vanishingly rare or non-existent.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unboy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)