|
|
Definition of Newsboy
1. Noun. A boy who delivers newspapers.
Definition of Newsboy
1. n. A boy who distributes or sells newspapers.
Definition of Newsboy
1. Noun. A boy, or by extension a man, who delivers and/or sells newspapers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Newsboy
1. a boy who delivers or sells newspapers [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newsboy
Literary usage of Newsboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"NAN, the newsboy, is among the latest of the be governed, according to his idea,
are few and odd characters which spring into fame from time simple. ..."
2. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1871)
"LITTLE BEN, THE newsboy. SOME months ago, or a year ago, may be it was—I have
forgotten just how long, for I don't remember times and seasons very well—two ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Nicknames - Teaching Self Help — Western Homes for New York's Waifs—"Wanted,
a Perfect Boy"—How a Street Arab Went to Yale College — newsboy Orators — A ..."
4. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory by Caroline C. Leighton (1884)
"The Dead newsboy. — Anniversary of the Goddess Kum Fa.— Chinese Regard for the
Moon and Flowers. — A Shin Worshipper. ALAMEDA, CAL., April 5,1878. ..."
Other Resources:
