boy vs person

boy

noun
  • A younger such worker. 

  • A son of any age. 

  • A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker. 

  • A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee 

  • A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address. 

  • Any non-white male, regardless of age. 

  • A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from infants or adults. 

  • A male (tree, gene, etc). 

  • A young male. 

  • A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank. 

  • Heroin. 

  • A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog. 

verb
  • To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage). 

intj
  • Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing. 

person

noun
  • A worker in a specified function or specialty. 

  • The human genitalia; specifically, the penis. 

  • A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. 

  • An individual substance of a rational nature; usually a human being. 

  • Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing). 

  • A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. 

  • A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person. 

  • Any sentient or socially intelligent being. 

  • Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. 

  • A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman). 

  • The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. 

  • Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. 

verb
  • To man, to supply with staff or crew. 

How often have the words boy and person occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )