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Homeboy
is always a great word to know.
So is brown-nose. Does it mean:
| to seek favors from a person in an obsequious manner, to fawn over |
| a person who is notably honest, moral, or innocent |
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Word Origin & History
homeboy
"person from one's hometown," 1940s, Amer.Eng., black slang, also originally with overtones of "simpleton." With many variants (cf. homebuddy, homeslice, both 1980s, with meaning shading toward "good friend"). The word had been used by Ruskin (1886) with the sense "stay-at-home male," and it was Canadian
EXPANDslang for "boy brought up in an orphanage or other institution" (1913). Short form homie attested by 1970s; in New Zealand slang this meant "English or British immigrant" (1927).
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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