good old boy

Questions about good old boy

What is another word for good old boy?

It depends which good old boy you mean. In the sense “a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group”, the synonyms are good ole boy, good ol' boy. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of good old boy?

WordNet records no antonym for good old boy. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for good old boy come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for good old boyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for good old boyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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