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单词 homeboy
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homeboyn.

Brit. /ˈhəʊmbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌbɔɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home adj., boy n.1
Etymology: < home adj. + boy n.1
1. A boy who is fond of home or of staying at home; a person who loves his or her own home, household, or country.Sometimes depreciative, implying timidity or lack of sophistication.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > attachment to home life > person
house dove1579
houseling1598
house bird1601
home-sittera1657
housekeepera1741
Sunday man1769
homester1819
homebird1821
homebody1821
stay-at-home1836
homeboy1847
homegirl1847
stay-putter1927
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > other spec. > person
patriot1577
Panhellenist1851
pan-Slav1851
pan-Slavist1884
pan-Celt1894
America Firster1927
Black Nationalist1943
homeboy2008
1847 W. E. Heygate Godfrey Davenant i. 11 The bare benches, the mugs, the lumps of bread and butter, the scrambling and confusion altogether, made up a wretched scene for a home boy.
1871 Herald of Health Aug. 66/2 The school-boy feels insulted if his playmates call him a ‘home-boy’; it is as much to say that he is a milk-sop, a baby, and wanting in spirit.
1919 D. Karsner Debs vi. 114 Eugene was always a ‘home boy’, and in his later life no man enjoyed more than he his family circle.
1967 J. Kerouac Let. 18 Jan. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 434 Ah Sterling, an old home boy like me,..just falls apart when his Ma gets sick and helpless.
2008 P. Linebaugh Magna Carta Manifesto xii. 278 Marx..exclaimed with the pride of a homeboy, remembering his father's words to him as a child, how the old Germanic system of commoning survived ‘right in my own neighbourhood’.
2. Originally U.S. Also as a form of address.
a. Chiefly U.S. and (later also) South African. A man or youth from one's home town, region, or neighbourhood; (also) a male from a background similar to one's own. [In South African English partly after Xhosa umkhâya person from home, family member ( < um-, class prefix denoting an animate being (e.g. a person) in the singular + -khâya home, abode, place of origin), and partly after its cognate Zulu umkhaya, in the same sense.]
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the world > people > nations > compatriots > [noun] > compatriot > man
homeboy1861
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > male friend from one's own neighbourhood
homeboy1861
home1944
bro1969
bra1974
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > fellow townsman
concitizen1428
co-citizen1488
comburgess1517
fellow citizen1550
townsman1562
conscive1578
town's bairn?1591
comburgher1605
townsfolk1614
townschild1621
city mana1661
townsboy1699
town folk1805
townie1824
townsfellow1830
homeboy1861
homie1929
homes1971
1861 Independent (U.S.) 6 June 4/6 We welcome our cousins from the West, the pioneers of our New England institutions... We welcome the home boys, the New Englanders.
1899 Colored Amer. 25 Nov. 3/3 The ‘home boys’ with the Williams and Walker aggregation were sore over the frost they met with in..Washington.
1953 ‘P. Lanham’ & A. S. Mopeli-Paulus Blanket Boy's Moon i. vi. 40 Ntoane..also came from Lesotho... ‘Welcome, home-boy. What work are you to do?’
1954 V. Randolph Pissing in Snow (1976) liii. 80 The home boys all laughed like hell when they heard that [sc. a joke about incest in Arkansas families], but..a big farmer from Arkansas..got mad.
1963 M. H. Wilson & A. Mafeje Langa 55 In the barracks every man questioned could define his home-boy group.
1972 Drum (Johannesburg) 22 Oct. 18 When I came to Johannesburg in 1949..I stayed with the homeboys in Sophiatown who also got me a job with a garage.
1973 Black World Apr. 80/2 Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City (the town we homeboys call K.C.).
2009 S. J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Do ‘Zimbabweans’ Exist? ii. 66 The YEMS [i.e. Young Ethiopian Manyika Society] was constituted largely as a grouping of home-boys from Manicaland and of Manyika ethnic stock.
b. slang. Originally esp. among urban black and Hispanic youths: a man or youth belonging to one's group of close friends; a member of one's gang. Frequently with possessive adjective.Often with admixture of sense 2a, referring to a group or gang originating from the same area or neighbourhood.Since the early 1980s the term has become particularly strongly associated with hip-hop subculture.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] > other types of companion
consenter1303
pew-fellow1533
bander1563
intercommoner1567
convenera1572
compeer1574
copemate1593
coherent1598
minion1598
barnacle1607
intercommuner1620
shade1667
dangler1728
rafiq1783
esquire1824
Sancho1870
tag-along1961
homeboy1965
bredda1969
arm piece1975
1965 H. Rhodes Chosen Few iii. 49 What's th' long face fer, home boy?
1971 G. L. Kirkham in J. M. Henslin Stud. Sociol. Sex 341 Unless a man is a well-known returnee or has friends or ‘homeboys’ who will help define him as a ‘solid con’ to other prisoners, he may be in serious trouble.
1976 Los Angeles Times 9 Apr. ii. 4/1 Henry..found religion in the Mojave. Now he is..attending meetings three times a week, including Friday nights when his ‘homeboys’ are out marauding.
1980 T. A. Sweeney Streets of Anger, Streets of Hope i. 127 Another gang's kids came over and there was a fight. One of his friends got stabbed so he began to stop it and was carrying his homeboy, his friend, to his car.
1982 S. Robinson & J. Chase On Radio (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: The Lyrics (1992) 57 I asked him to explain what I was talking about My man was too excited, he begin to shout I finally figured out what homeboy was saying You never guess what the radio's playing.
1992 Face Feb. 46/2 Those guys are my homeboys, if they're in trouble then I'm in trouble.
2004 R. Corbet Shelf Life (2005) iv. 44 Jared made a fake hip-hop gesture with his hands. ‘Check it out, homeboy.’
2010 R. Garot Who you Claim v. 108 My cousins were like telling me that we need to go shoot them up, because it's a rival gang or whatever. [But to me] it's not that important. Nobody died. Nobody except me and my cousins and my homeboys got hurt.
c. slang. A young African-American or Hispanic man, esp. one who is from an inner-city area or who is a member of a street gang. In later use also: a man or boy belonging to the hip-hop subculture (cf. sense 2b).
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society
beard1667
come-outer1840
pagan1841
Bohemian1843
Greenwich Villager1887
weirdie1894
outsider1907
white nigger1934
beardo1935
isolate1942
weirdo1955
beat1958
beatnik1958
boho1958
beatster1959
way out1959
hippie1966
rebetis1966
homeboy1967
peanut1968
Yippie1968
suedehead1970
Goth1986
grebo1987
hipster1989
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > gang > types of > member of
greaser1964
homeboy1967
thug1983
1967 P. Thomas Down these Mean Streets xii. 114 The nurse nodded and the colored cat looked at her and began smiling... ‘Now, hon-nee, I may be dying and—’ ‘Don't put a brave act on with me, home-boy.’
1979 D. Gram Boulevard Nights 13 Raymond..look[ed] as much American Indian as Chicano homeboy.
1985 ‘J. Blowdryer’ Mod. Eng. 64 Homeboy, a gang member.
1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic iv. 99 Black homeboys and white suburban poodle-heads hated each other.
1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. i. 33/4 If you're in the suburbs, there are a lot of teen-agers driving around in cars, drunk. To me, that's just as dangerous as a bunch of homeboys strutting through the subways.
2000 Independent 28 Mar. ii. 1/1 He's a street-talking parody of young white men who adopt black American gangsta affectations in order to appear cool—the disaffected wannabe homeboys.
2006 N.Y. Mag. 19 June 50/2 He's currently doing a sort of matchy-matchy homeboy thing with below-the-knees shorts, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and spotless leather high-tops, all in red.
3. Chiefly North American. A boy who has been brought up or resettled by a charitable home, orphanage, or similar institution.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inmate of institution > boy brought up in orphanage or institution
homeboy1864
1864 Advocate & Family Guardian 16 Mar. 71/3 From several among our sixty ‘Home boys’ in the army, donations are frequently received that are shared by the soldiers' orphans.
1885 R. A. N. Harvey Hist. French in Amer. 63 Frank Dodsley, father's home boy has gone to work for Carmicheals for $15 a year with board and clothes.
1913 S. A. Francis Canad. Home Boy iii The Canadian reader will need no explanation of the title ‘Home Boy’, but to the British reader this term will convey little meaning... It denotes a boy who has been brought up in some charitable ‘Home’, and from whom little that is good is expected.
1998 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 15 June c3 ‘I worked on a farm until I was 21,’ said 79-year-old former home boy Bob Evans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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