ETYM Cf. Dutch boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to German bube, Icel. bofi rouge.
(Homonym: buoy).
1. A friendly informal reference to a grown man.
2. Offensive term for Black man.

Scotish: Boy; fellow

1. Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping — usually used in plural
2. (chiefly British) A boy employed as a helper (as of a carter or hawker)
3. Child; especially; a small boy

British; yobbo

A young person; a child; an adolescent.