# Whiteboy

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland, using violent tactics to defend tenant farmers' land rights for subsistence farming.

## Etymology
From white + boy, from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/whiteboy