Pay vs Boy - What's the difference?
pay | boy |
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21
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To give (something else than money).
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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To be profitable or worth the effort.
To discharge an obligation or debt.
To suffer consequences.
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
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Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
Pertaining to or requiring payment.
(nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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)
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As nouns the difference between pay and boy
is that pay is money given in return for work; salary or wages while boy is .As a verb pay
is to give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services or pay can be (nautical|transitive) to cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc; to smear.As an adjective pay
is operable or accessible on deposit of coins.pay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
T time, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
- not paying me a welcome
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
Derived terms
* hell to pay * pay as you earn * pay-as-you-go * pay attention * pay back * pay down * payee * payer * pay for * pay for it * pay forward * pay in * payment * pay off * pay one's dues * pay one's respects * pay out * pay-per-view * pay respect * pay the bills * pay the freight * pay the penalty * pay the piper * pay through the nose * pay up * rob Peter to pay Paul * take or pay * you get what you pay forHypernyms
* (to give money) compensateHyponyms
* (to give money) bribe, disburse, fund, pay off, pay out, pay up, reimburseNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* combat pay * danger payAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
(etyl) peier, from (etyl) (lena) .Verb
(en verb)Statistics
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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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Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys , but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- 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.
