noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
schoolboy humour (= jokes, funny stories etc that are silly and rude but not offensive )
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The schoolboy humour appealed to him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
overgrown
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Eddie is an overgrown schoolboy with a penchant for pulling fleshy faces.
public
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The perverse adult was the public schoolboy grown up, the infraction of the norm whose existence re-established it.
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Safe Home Counties seats in the 50s wanted decorous ex-\#public schoolboys .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overgrown schoolboy/child
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Eddie is an overgrown schoolboy with a penchant for pulling fleshy faces.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a schoolboy prank he leaned forward to staple the boy in front's jacket to his chair.
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Every schoolboy knows what the surface of Mars looks like and now he must see Uranus.
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He was only a schoolboy , after all: we all tended to forget that.
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They also robbed two schoolboys of their £250 mountain bikes.