good boy
/ˈɡʊd ˌbɔɪ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Said as praise to an obedient male dog or other male domesticated animal; see also who's a good boy.
Example Sentences
- "Oh you're such a good boy, not reporting the crime because you didn't want to hurt anyone."
- "Perhaps now he’d had his lesson. Perhaps now he’d be a good boy! Again a Fugitive After Felonious Asault. So they said, and thought, and hoped—never dreaming that “John O’Malley” was giving a song and dance to a 14-year-old junior-high-schooler in an East Kirk St. roller skating rink!"
- "When he was 13, his mother gave him a big goat’s-milk cheese and sent him trudging far over the hills to a church school to study for the priesthood, and she admonished him to be a good boy."
- "The moment passed, and she packed him firmly off with cheerful, conventional, headmistressy remarks about being a good boy, and next term coming soon."
- "English is scandalously lacking in politically and linguistically correct antonyms of this sort. The Queen can create the Duchess of Cambridge, so surely I can create the much-needed expressions "cisgress" (be a good boy), "cisvestite" (bloke wearing trousers), "cisaction" (no deal), and "cisom" (something that isn't a lintel). Anyone who doesn't disagree is a transsy."
- "Fetch! Fetch! — (dog fetches stick) — Good boy!"
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡʊd ˌbɔɪ/
- British English: /ˈɡʊd ˌbɔɪ/