Definition of "poor boy" []

• Gulf Coast U.S. See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine. (noun)

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• "Hardly had the poor boy been buried in Bellie church near, when his father, now reinforced by the Gordons, so that he could count 2,000 foot and 200 horse, was on his “fiery progress” south through Aberdeenshire, “as if to challenge Generals Baillie and Urry.”"
• "Sallow-eyed, furtive, maybe a little brighter than the poor boy in the grocery store, backwoodsy but not an idiot."
• "It was a ghastly party—no one else but poor Neddy Silverton, who looks like a galley-slave they used to talk of my making that poor boy unhappy!"