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• a boy or man in relation to either or both of his parents.

Similar: male child, boy, son and heir, descendant, offspring, lad,

Origin: Old English sunu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zoon and German Sohn, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek huios .

• used as a general term of contempt or abuse.

• a jocular or affectionate way of addressing or referring to someone.
"he's a pretentious son of a gun, but he's got a heart of gold"