stepboy

plural stepboys

1. informalrareA stepson, especially one who is a boy.

   “You Dick Bosher’s boy?” […] “His stepboy,” I said. “Why?”

   1988, Edward R. Jones, chapter 10, in Hacksaw, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, →ISBN, page 90

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   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.

   1985, Barbara Comyns, chapter 28, in The Juniper Tree, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 166

   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.

   2016, Anne-Marie Casey, “The Land of Exile and Redemption”, in The Real Liddy James, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 255