birthday boy

birthday boy

See also: birthday-boy

English

Noun

birthday boy (plural birthday boys)

1. A male (of any age) whose birthday it is.
   • 1922, Ramy Allison White, Sunny Boy and His Playmates, 2006, The Echo Library, page 49,

     The party was to be from two to five o'clock, and Sunny Boy, in his best white flannel suit, and carrying Oliver's present under his arm, started about quarter of two for the birthday boy’s house.

   • 2005, Stephen Kogon, Max Mooth—Cyber Sleuth and the Case of the Zombie Virus‎, page 90:

     The birthday boy was a 65-year-old man who was half-asleep.

   • 2006, Aileen M. Buckley, From the Driver's Seat‎, page 108:

     When they came out of the restaurant, Quinn noticed the birthday boy appeared tipsy but he was twenty-one now, and everyone was having a good time.

Related terms

• birthday girl

Translations

a male whose birthday it is

Dutch: Jarige Job, (but also applies to a birthday girl) jarige (nl) m Finnish: syntymäpäiväsankari (gender-neutral) German: Geburtstagskind (de) n Hebrew: יוֹם הַהוּלֶּדֶת‎ (he) חָתָן‎ (he) m (ḥatán yom hahuledét) Hungarian: születésnapos (hu) (fiú) Icelandic: afmælisbarn n Italian: festeggiato (it) m

Norwegian: Bokmål: gebursdagsbarn n Portuguese: aniversariante (pt) m or f Serbo-Croatian: рођенданац m (rođendanac), славњеник m (slavljenik), свечар m (svečar) Spanish: cumpleañero (es) m Turkish: doğum günü çocuğu

See also

• jubilarian