poor boy

Questions about poor boy

What is another word for poor boy?

It depends which poor boy you mean. In the sense “a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States”, the synonyms are bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep. Across all 1 sense there are 14 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 poor boy?

WordNet records no antonym for poor 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 poor 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.

Other views of poor boy

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