new boyn.
/ˈnjuː bɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈn(j)u ˌbɔɪ/ A schoolboy during his first term(s) at a school. Also (in extended use): a (young) man newly come into a given situation or social environment, a newcomer. Cf. new girl n.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > one who or that which is new to the scene
new mana1387
newcomerc1450
mushrooma1593
Johnny Newcome1800
new boy1847
new girl1853
Johnny-come-lately1855
newie1856
new bug1900
new-tick1934
Johnny-come-lately1946
society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > schoolboy > new
new boy1847
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xli. 410 Here is the table upon which he sat forlorn and strange, the ‘new boy’ of the school.
1905 R. Brooke Let. 12 Mar. (1968) 18 Such brave souls can be content with the admiration of one another, and of the new boys.
1935 H. 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.
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 124 New boy, a new member of a ship's ward-room.
1953 A. 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.
2001 Sun 27 Jan. (Football section) 6/5 Jean Tigana may hand new boy Peter Moller his Fulham debut to solve a striker crisis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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