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Fauntleroy   /fˈɔntlərˌɔɪ/   Listen
Fauntleroy

noun
1.
An excessively polite and well-dressed boy.  Synonym: Little Lord Fauntleroy.






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"Fauntleroy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the breasts of their boys? I wonder if they know that when grown men see one of these "pretty-mannered boys," cocksure as a Swiss toy new painted and directed by watch spring, they feel an unholy impulse to empty an ink-bottle over the young calf? Fauntleroy kids are a reproach to our civilization. Men, women and children, all of us, crowd around the grimy Deignan of the Merrimac crew, and shout and cheer for Bill Smith, the Rough Rider, who carried his mate out of the ruck at San Juan and twirls his hat awkwardly and explains: ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison



Words linked to "Fauntleroy" :   male child, boy



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