playboy

From play +‎ boy.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪbɔɪ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪˌbɔɪ/
• Hyphenation: play‧boy

playboy (plural playboys)

1. A single man, especially a wealthy one, who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.
   • 1969, Joe Bataan, “Ordinary Guy”:

     Exclusive nightclubs are out of style with me / 'Cause I don't associate with high society / I don't hang around playboy millionaires / I'm just an ordinary guy you left behind

• hedonist

• playgirl

From English playboy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplei̯boi̯/, [ˈple̞i̯bo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -eiboi

playboy

1. playboy

• “playboy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

playboy m (plural playboys)

1. post-1990 spelling of play-boy

Unadapted borrowing from English playboy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɛj.bɔj/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛjbɔj
• Syllabification: play‧boy

playboy m pers

1. playboy (hedonist who leads an easy life, including sexual indulgence)

• “playboy”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “playboy”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

• pleibói, pleiba

Unadapted borrowing from English playboy.

• Rhymes: -ɔj

playboy m (plural playboys)

1. playboy (man who devotes himself to pleasure)
2. (Brazil, slang) a rich person

• “playboy”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “playboy”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English playboy.

playboy m (plural playboy)

1. playboy

• play boy

Unadapted borrowing from English playboy.

playboy m (plural playboys)

1. playboy

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “playboy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025