单词 | homeboy |
释义 | homeboyn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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.] ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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