English
Etymology
From paper + boy.
Pronunciation
Noun
paperboy (plural paperboys)
- A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.
- Synonym: newsboy (sometimes synonymous)
- Hypernyms: boy < person
- Coordinate terms: papergirl, newsgirl
Our current paperboy does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old paperboy sometimes would fling it into the bushes!
Translations
male who delivers newspapers
- Bulgarian: вестникарче n (vestnikarče)
- Catalan: repartidor de diaris m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 報童 / 报童 (zh) (bàotóng)
- Danish: avisdreng c
- Finnish: lehdenjakaja (fi)
- French: livreur de journaux m, camelot (fr) m (Canada)
- German: Zeitungsausträger m, Zeitungsjunge (de) m
- Hungarian: újságkihordó (hu), lapkihordó (hu)
- Icelandic: blaðburðardrengur m, blaðadrengur m, (more generally) blaðberi (is) m
- Irish: giolla páipéar m
- Italian: ragazzo dei giornali m, strillone (it) m
- Japanese: 新聞配達 (しんぶんはいたつ, shinbun haitatsu)
- Marathi: पेपरवाला m (peparvālā)
- Portuguese: ardina m
- Romanian: băiat cu ziare m
- Russian: газе́тчик (ru) m (gazétčik)
- Spanish: repartidor de periódicos m
- Welsh: bachgen danfon papurau m, hogyn papur newydd (North)
- Zazaki: rocnamegêr m
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