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slaveboy

noun

Etymology

Compound of slave + boy.

Definitions

  1. A boy who is a slave.

    • An instance of this argumentative strategy occurs in Plato’s Meno, in an episode involving a slaveboy. Socrates asks a slaveboy to answer a series of questions about the relative proportions of sides of a square.
    • […] passage in which a slaveboy — who has never had any geometry lessons — is led by a series of questions to invent for himself a theorem related to that of Pythagoras […]
    • When a slaveboy named Husrev died of illness near Azov in 1667, Evliya composed an elegy for him […]

  2. A young male slave (submissive partner) in a BDSM relationship.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA