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new boy
Also new-boy, newboy.
[new a. 8.]
A schoolboy during his first term(s) at a school, esp. one at a preparatory school or English public school. Also transf., a (young) man newly come into a given set of circumstances. Cf. new a. 4 b, new girl.
1847Dickens Dombey (1848) xli. 410 Here is the table upon which he sat forlorn and strange, the ‘new boy’ of the school. 1847Punch 25 Dec. 255 (caption) Here's a New Boy, Johnny Russell. Now you see that nobody bullies him. 1905R. Brooke Let. 12 Mar. (1968) 18 Such brave souls can be content with the admiration of one another, and of the new boys. 1935H. Nicolson Diary 21 Nov. (1966) 229 He says the rather dramatic circumstances of my election may arouse some jealousy in that old hen the H. of C. I must do the new-boy for six months at least. 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 124 New boy, a new member of a ship's ward-room. 1953A. Huxley Let. 5 Apr. (1969) 667 He had been part of my Order of Things for almost fifty years, ever since we first met as newboys at our preparatory school in the autumn of 1903. 1970E. Pace Saberlegs (1971) x. 87 He was a new boy here, a novice ‘philanthropoid’, as people in the foundation business called themselves. 1973Washington Post 13 Jan. A. 22/2 Neither the anxious war critic Mr. Hughes nor the cautious new boy Mr. Clements was familiar with the unequivocal policy statement..made..just two years ago. 1974‘J. Le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor i. 10 Roach was a new boy... Thursgood's was his second prep school. |