Sally Boy

This is the real definition for a Sally Boy. It's the original definition used for a ship hand.

I'm sorry everyone, sally boy was not originally meant to mean a homosexual or an effeminate male. The word "Sally" came from the word salay. Salay boy is a cabin boy, steward, ship hand, etcetera. Their job is to help maintain the ship and assist each other (if there's more than one aboard the ship), the sailors (and pirate sailors), officers, cooks, the captain, any co-captains, and the first mate (who is also a co-captain). They also assisted the passengers on the ships as well.

The dress style back then may have seemed effeminate due to the time period and dress style at that time (prior to current dress style used by sailors in the merchant marines and other garb with by sailors from other localities). These boys (adolescents)/men (unless they were new to the job as an adolescent) were treated as men and respected as men for their jobs (no offense to the women, we all know the superstitions back then; unless a woman tricked or was allowed to trick the sailors and Captain ;) and became a Salay Boy). They are very important individuals on any ship.

The derogatory term that is used today, is from a difference in dialects. It's the clothing that I'd assume is the reason for the term being used to wrongly discriminate against someone and to treat someone badly due to being different by societies norms.

The Sally boy (salay boy) was sent to get aide for someone that is hurt and to look for someone who is missing on the ship they work on.

by Padraig81 August 21, 2023

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Fuck Boy

A word with an ambiguous meaning, occasionally used as a term of admiration but more often as an epithet for someone who is promiscuous but does so in a less than admirable way. Unlike the “player” of the gen-x Black subculture, other males are less likely to admire fuck boys and it is okay to hate them (as opposed to the stigma of being a player-hater ) because of these methods, which often are perceived as un- masculine and play with a woman’s emotions by being vulnerable and professing love , something a player would be much less likely to do. This vulnerability, along with an androgynous style, may in fact be genuine and is the product of the fuck boys own confusion and psychological neuroses. Genuine or not, a fuck boy, like a junkie, will renege on previous promises and then act as if his behavior was intentional or innocent, depending on the circumstances.

“I’m a player, don’t call me a fuck boy. All that crying I did during the movie the Notebook was part of my master plan.”

“I’m not a fuck boy, I really loved you. It’s just I’m so confused sometimes I don’t know how I feel. Can you give me some more time?”

by LegalisticBeagle June 14, 2018

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