Boy in spanish
pronunciation: ninjoʊ part of speech: noun
boy = chico.
Example: This is a story about a thirteen-year-old boy who lives in New York and is so often the victim of street bullies that he hides in the subway, where he manages to make a home for himself.more:
» altar boy = monaguillo.
Example: Inside the church, when the priest appeared from the sacristy, I saw that he was without an altar boy.» as a boy = cuando era niño.
Example: Another such collector was Sir Walter Scott himself, who even as a boy had a collection of chapbooks.» baby boy = niño, varón, nene.
Example: With a conception calendar you can choose to conceive on the days that Nature has chosen for a baby boy or a baby girl.» bad boy = chico malo.
Example: It is unlikely that anything else can quite lift him to that level of visibility ever again, especially considering that he is not quite the babelacious, bad-boy hunk he once was.» bellboy = botones, mozo de hotel.
Example: This is made possible because the 'skipper' comes with little luggage to avoid bringing the attention of the bellboys to his 'secretive' check out.» bovver boy = gamberro, camorrista, pendenciero.
Example: They are not bovver boys at all, though -- actually they are usually very nice people, with very very few exceptions.» boy band = boy band, grupo de cantantes masculino.
Example: We already knew these Irish lads were among the best boy bands out there, but they really hit it out of the park with this romantic song.» boyfriend = novio, maromo.
Example: To work as a librarian is so terribly respectable that young lady trainees at library school have been known to try to keep their specialism a secret from young men so as not to prejudice their chances of acquiring boyfriends.» boyhood = niñez.
Example: It occurred to him that the library might subscribe to his boyhood home town newspaper.» boy-next-door, the = chico normal, un.
Example: On paper, most girls would name the boy-next-door as their ideal mate, although in the real world you're often passed over for more masculine men.» boy racer = macarra al volante, tunero.
Example: Why would he make up such porkies in order to make me look like some dangerous boy racer who deserved to get knocked off his bike?.» boys in blue, the = policía, la. [Como referencia al color de sus uniformes]
Example: She crossed the waters to Ireland this week for a gig in Cork but it seems she had a run-in with the boys in blue during her visit.» boy wonder = joven promesa.
Example: Another boy wonder is Kip Kreiling, who spent most of his childhood in foster homes, juvenile homes and eventually behind bars = Una joven promesa es Kip Kreiling, quien pasó la mayoría de su infancia en casas de acogida, centros tutelares de menores y posteriormente entre rejas.» bus boy = pinche, camarero.
Example: However, in addition to the couple of examples that Ms Marshall cited from the extant and altogether active LC subject thesaurus, there are also bus boys, MAN, LUMBERMEN, LONGSHOREMEN, FISHERMEN, etc.» chit of a boy = mocoso.
Example: The old inspector was shocked at this unusual display by a chit of a boy only just beginning his police career.» cowboy = vaquero, cowboy.
Example: Playground games show that children like a clear differentiation between cowboys, cops and spacemen who are good, and Indians, robbers and space monsters who are bad.» farm boy = joven granjero.
Example: A fiercely energetic drama of Oedipal lust and yearning involving a rebellious farm boy, his tyrannical father, and the father's slatternly new wife.» golden boy = niño prodigio, joven prodigio, niño bonito.
Example: James Corden, who until not so long ago was the golden boy of British comedy, perhaps knows this better than anyone else just now.» good old boy = persona de confianza.
Example: Many long-term residents feel that Junctionville should be governed the way it was before Groome appeared -- by 'good old boys' who had worked their way up, who eschewed issues, and who faithfully rewarded their cronies.» little boys room = servicio, aseo, baño, lavabo.
Example: When I went to the little boys/girls room to relieve myself I was suprised to see the amount of loo rolls stashed in the corner.» loverboy = tenorio, donjuán, playboy, ligón, robacorazones, ladrón de corazones.
Example: She fell for a charming older guy only to discover her 'loverboy' had entrapped her in a dangerous world of sexual exploitation.» machine boy = joven ayudante del encargado de la máquina de imprimir. [En imprenta antigua, joven que ayudaba al operario a cargo de la máquina de imprimir]
Example: Printing machines were operated by two new grades of worker, skilled machine-minders and unskilled machine boys.» naughty boy = niño travieso, chico travieso.
Example: Everytime I mention him though people say things like 'he is a naughty boy' but I don't know why I remember him as the butter wouldn't melt in his mouth type like the rest of us = Cada vez que le menciono, la gente dice cosas como que "es un chico travieso", pero no sé por qué le recuerdo como una mosquita muerta como el resto de nosotros.*.» newsboy = repartidor de periódicos, vendedor de periódicos.
Example: My dad was a newsboy in the 1960s, delivering afternoon papers by bike, with a big sack strung over his shoulder and hanging at his side.» old boy network = red de antiguos compañeros. [Grupo de personas que se conocen de antiguo y que en la actualidad mantiene relaciones ayudándose mutuamente, por ej., citándose los unos a los otros para mejorar su índice de impacto]
Example: This article discusses the 15 year cumulative impacts of periodicals and the percentage of uncitedness, the emergence of scientometrics, old boy networks, and citation frequency distributions.» paperboy = repartidor de periódicos.
Example: He's been our paperboy for years, and he's never been late one morning.» playboy = playboy, vividor, conquistador, donjuán, casanova.
Example: Serial swindler Kenneth Broad was this afternoon jailed for 15 months bringing to an end a playboy lifestyle lived at other people's expense.» poster boy = representante ejemplar, paradigma por excelencia.
Example: He is the poster boy for making dreams come true and a great role model for all.» reading-boy = chico lector. [En la historia de la imprenta, joven empleado para leer el manuscrito original mientras que el corrector leía la primera prueba y anotaba correcciones]
Example: Finally, the reading-boy disappeared in English printing houses around 1900, since when the corrector has made direct ocular comparison of the (probably edited) copy with the first proof.» schoolboy [school-boy] = escolar, colegial.
Example: When a schoolboy, coming to the library with nothing better than grades in mind, discovers incidentally the fascination of books that have nothing to do with his homework.» small-town country boy = chico de pueblo.
Example: He was a loner himself, a small-town country boy who spent most of his time wandering about the hills and fields near his home.» stable boy = mozo de cuadra, palafrenero.
Example: The van was arriving, so he told the stable boys to return the steeds to their stalls and be ready for new steeds being delivered.» stock boy = chico de almacén, mozo de almacén, reponedor.
Example: He sold the store to the first stock boy he hired in 1988.» teenage boy = adolescente.
Example: The copy was grubby from use, a paperback with a photographically realistic full-color painting on its cover of an early teenage boy slumped in what looked to me like a corner of a very dirty back alley, a can of Coke in his hand.» tomboy = marimacho, machona.
Example: Males who engage in more feminine activities may be considered 'sissies' and may often feel less accepted than females labeled as 'tomboys'.» whipping boy = chivo espiatorio, cabeza de turco.
Example: The coal industry has become the 'whipping boy' of environmentalists who fail to come up with realistic alternatives for energy.» wonder boy = niño prodigio, joven prodigio, niño bonito.
Example: He was born with a severe heart condition but now, after a couple of years of training, he is the 'wonder boy' that all the doctors want to meet.» You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy = aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda; no se le puede pedir peras al olmo; la cabra siempre tira al monte.
Example: Or, as they say around here, 'You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy'.» young boy = chico, niño joven.
Example: 2 case histories are outlined -- the case of a woman who might be dead and that of a young boy and a potentially rabid dog.