highboy
noun
highboy is a noun meaning “A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-I-G-H-B-O-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of highboy is highboys.
What does highboy mean?
noun
- 1
A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs.
(US) National Gallery of Art During the Queen Anne period in America, the highboy attained its characteristic form. … The cabriole leg was a distinctive feature developed in the Queen Anne period; its shape repeats the S-curve that dominate
- 2
datedOne who enjoys the high life.
- 3
datedA political highflier.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce highboy?
- US
Highboy has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-highboy.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of highboy
- highboys plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is highboy?
Highboy appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does highboy come from?
See high and lowboy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).