{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "As I held my poor stepboy in my arms I lost my reason and it was as if I had become someone else, someone stupid and crafty at the same time.", "ref": "1985, Barbara Comyns, chapter 28, in The Juniper Tree, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 166:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[18, 25]]}, {"text": "“You Dick Bosher’s boy?” […] “His stepboy,” I said. “Why?”", "ref": "1988, Edward R. Jones, chapter 10, in Hacksaw, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, →ISBN, page 90:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[34, 41]]}, {"text": "The three of us have different fathers, not one of whom stuck around, and we have four stepbrothers too. Dear Gordon, the stepboys’ dad, died suddenly of a heart attack in the conservatory, and we were broke whenever Roberta was between husbands, but . . . it was okay.", "ref": "2016, Anne-Marie Casey, “The Land of Exile and Redemption”, in The Real Liddy James, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 255:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[122, 130]]}], "categories": ["English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms prefixed with step-", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with rare senses", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Male family members"], "links": [["stepson", "stepson"], ["boy", "boy"]], "raw_glosses": ["(informal, rare) A stepson, especially one who is a boy."], "glosses": ["A stepson, especially one who is a boy."], "tags": ["informal", "rare"]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-noun", "args": {}, "expansion": "stepboy (plural stepboys)"}], "forms": [{"form": "stepboys", "tags": ["plural"]}], "etymology_text": "From step- + boy.", "etymology_links": [["step-", "step-#English"], ["boy", "boy#English"]], "etymology_templates": [{"name": "prefix", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "step", "3": "boy"}, "expansion": "step- + boy"}], "word": "stepboy", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}