beau
Noun
- A boyfriend, suitor, or dandy.
- a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
- A male lover; a boyfriend.
- A male escort.
- A suitor of a lady.
Verb
- To act as a beau (towards); to court or woo.
Examples
- Adding an X to BEAU to make BEAUX is a beautiful play.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English beau, beu, bew, bewe, from Old French beau, from Latin bellus (“beautiful”). Doublet of bello and boo.
Synonyms
boyfriend, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fellow, fop, gallant, sheik, swain, swell, young man, 'ho, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, Dutch widow, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, Jemmy-Jessamy, KTV girl, Paphian, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, address, admirer, adorer, alley cat, almah, baby, bangtail, barbermonger, bargirl, bat, beau, bedear, beloved, beotch, blade, blood, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, buck, business girl, calico queen, callboy, callet, carpet knight, cat, chase after, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cockscomb, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, court, courter, creature of the night, croshabell, crush, darling, daughter of joy, dike, dollymop, dood, doxy, drab, dudelet, enamorado, endear, escort, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fille de joie, fine gentleman, flame, flap, floozie, follower, foretop, fornicatrix, frail sister, fribble, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, go, good-time girl, hackney, harlot, hireling, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, jack-a-dandy, jay, jetter, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, leman, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, loteby, love, love interest, lover, macaroni, make love, masher, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, metrosexual, mignon, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, painted lady, paramour, party boy, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, petit maître, pimpette, pitch woo, popinjay, pretty boy, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, prig, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, puss-gentleman, pussygirl, put, put the moves on, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, romance, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, smart, sodomitess, soiled dove, solicit, spark, sparker, spiff, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, suitor, sweetheart, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tippy, toff, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, truelove, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, woo, wooer, working girl
Scrabble Score: 6
beau: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbeau: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
beau: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary