Noun: lowboy
| Singular | lowboy |
| Plural | lowboys |
Sample Sentences
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Puffing rhythmically, Jones set one of his beautiful dragon-entwined flambeaux on the low-boy with the gleaming drinks […]. [1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 38, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 1, page 195:]
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Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed. [1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 155:]
Nouns inflected like lowboy
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly from low + French bois (“wood”). See: French Nouns '
bois'.