Boy vs Gill - What's the difference?
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Male servant.
# (now, rare) A male servant, in general senses.
# (historical, now, offensive) A non-white male servant, as used especially by whites in a colonial settlement etc.
# (now, offensive) A non-white male.
(obsolete) A lower-class or disreputable man; a worthless person.
* 1608 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , Act I Scene 4:
A young male human; a male child or young adult.
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* (Walter Scott)
A man of any age, used as a friendly diminutive, or of a man who is merely younger than the speaker.
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(colloquial) A male friend or fellow of some group, community etc. (mainly used in the plural).
(US, slang) Heroin.
to use the word boy to refer to someone
to act as a boy (qualifier, in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage)
* Shakespeare
(animal anatomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
* Ray
(of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
(mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne.
(animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
(figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
(spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
* 2014 , Scott Tippett, Polaris (ISBN 1304268179), page 99:
(lb) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
* 1898 , Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor , page 255:
* 1971 , Michael Culley, ?G. A. Kerkut, The Pilchard: Biology and Exploitation (ISBN 1483186784), page 70:
* 1994 , G.D. Pickett, ?M.G. Pawson, Sea Bass: Biology (ISBN 0412400901), page 177:
(lb) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
* 2010 , Edward A. Perrine, Midnight Tracy (ISBN 0557472334), page 147:
A drink measure for spirits and wine. Size varies regionally but it is about one quarter of a pint.
(archaic, British) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
As nouns the difference between boy and gill
is that boy is while gill is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.As a proper noun gill is
.boy
English
Alternative forms
* boi (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- When the 'dipenda' (independence movement) in Belgian Congo turned violent, the white colonisers' often materially privileged black domestic boys were mistrusted and often abused as collaborators.
- Dost thou call me fool, boy ?
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- My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee.
- I like the boy .
Synonyms
* brat * knave * lad * squirt * youngster * youth * See alsoSee also
* (African-American) uncleAntonyms
* (young male) girlDerived terms
* altar boy * attaboy * bad boy * bagboy * ball boy, ballboy * bat boy * b-boy * bell boy, bellboy * best boy * big boys * blue-eyed boy * boi * boy band * boy-bishop * boy crazy * boyfriend * boy genius * boyhood * boy howdy * boyish * boyism * boykin (diminutive) * boy oh boy * boy racer * boys and their toys * boy scout * boytjie * boy toy * boys will be boys * boy wonder * bully boy * bum boy * cabin boy * city boy * college boy * copy boy * cowboy * delivery boy * doughboy * farm boy * frat boy * golden boy * homeboy * house boy * lawnboy * little boy * lowboy * mama’s boy]], [[mummy's boy, mummy’s boy * my boy * nancy boy * newsboy * office boy * oh boy * old boy * our boy * page boy, pageboy * paper boy, paperboy * pizza boy, pizzaboy * pool boy * poor boy, po’ boy * poster boy * potboy * pretty boy * rent boy * sailor boy * sea boy * shop boy * sonny boy * stableboy * tallboy * Teddy boy * tomboy * traffic boy * water boy * whipping boy * whiteboy, white boy * wide boy * wolf boy * yellow boy, yellow-boyDescendants
* Irish English: boyo * Vietnamese:Verb
(en verb)- I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.
See also
* girl, man (antonyms in some senses) * *References
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* * 1000 English basic words ----gill
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Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills .
- Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills .
- (Jonathan Swift)
Synonyms
* (mycology) lamellaDerived terms
* green about the gills * to the gillsSee also
* lungVerb
(en verb)- She gutted and gilled the fish, then scaled it.
- Owing to the peculiar shape of the pompano and the relatively large mesh in the pompano gill nets, the fish are not caught by being actually gilled .
- In cases of very heavy catches the nets may be hauled and stored with the fish still gilled . The fish would then be shaken out on return to the port.
- The intention is to gill the fish, so they are usually scared into the net by rowing one boat into the middle of the net circle and banging the oars on the boat bottom or splashing the water.
- Also, when fish gilled there wasn't as much extra twine to tangle in, so they were easier to release from the net.