boi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "boi"

English

Etymology

From boy.

Noun

boi (plural bois)

1. (countable, Internet slang) Alternative spelling of boy
   • 2000 September 24, Liz Almond, “(ot) the boi is gone...”, in alt.music.placebo, Usenet‎^[1], retrieved 2008 March 9:

     The boi who has been my best friend, the cause of my pain, but never quite my lover is gone....I'm sitting here in his Radiohead "don't tell me what kind of day to have" tee (it smells like him) listening to WYIN, and trying not to cry.

   • 2003, Molly-Ann Leikin, How to Be a Hit Songwriter: Polishing and Marketing Your Lyrics and Music‎^[2], →ISBN, page 48:

     And finally, in “Sk8er Boi,” Avril Lavigne tells us in her first two lines about the conflicts between the male and female by saying, “He was a boi, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious.”

   • 2004 August 5, Zonee, “Ungratefull fucking pizza boi....”, in alt.pizza.delivery.drivers, Usenet‎^[3], retrieved 2008 March 9:

     I inadvertently gave the afro-american delivery boi a $5 tip probably due to the fact that I had pickled a few brain cells.

2. (BDSM, especially in roleplay) A male bottom (i.e. submissive partner), defined not by junior age, but by his obedient role and submission to the dominant "top".
   • 2002 March 14, “MR MARKS”, in alt.personals.spanking.punishment, Usenet‎^[4]:

     boi will be treated as a boi at all times and will find himself the recepitent ^[sic] of many bare bottom spankings, private and in front of Daddies ^[sic] friends.

   • 2004, Kelly A. Morris, Things - Now, Then & Strange‎^[5], →ISBN, page 178:

     You, tattooed, butch boi with experience and a leash.

   • 2007, Will Kane, Forbidden Fruit: Psalms of a Black Master‎^[6], →ISBN, page 273:

     I fucked the boi that way. His ass had never known how good a man's dick feels when it's deep inside […]

3. A lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance.
4. (occasionally derogatory) A trans boy or man.
   • 2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:

     For example, “queer” would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the “opposite sex,” sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.

Derived terms

• sadboi
• houseboi
• femboi

See also

• gurl

Anagrams

• Bio, IBO, IOB, Ibo, bio, bio-, bio., obi

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Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• bain

Etymology

From Middle High German wīn, from Old High German wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum. Cognate with German Wein, English wine.

Noun

boi m

1. (Luserna) wine

Derived terms

• bòivarbe

References

• “boi” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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Galician

A Galician boi of cachena breed

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem), accusative of bōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔj/

Noun

boi m (plural bois)

1. ox; sometimes bull
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

     cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas

     a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats

   Synonym: almallo

2. steer
3. brown crab (Cancer pagurus)

   Synonyms: boi de mar, esqueiro, noca

Derived terms

• andar ao boi

See also

• touro

References

• “boi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “boi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “boi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “boi” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “boi” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Garo

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali বই (bôi).

Noun

boi

1. book

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch boy, from English boy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈboi]
• Hyphenation: boi

Noun

boi (plural, first-person possessive boiku, second-person possessive boimu, third-person possessive boinya)

1. (colloquial) A male servant.

Further reading

• “boi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ပွဲစား (pwai:ca:)

Noun

boi

1. loan

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[7], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

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Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French boire (“to drink”), compare Haitian Creole bwè.

Verb

boi

1. to drink

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

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Middle Irish

Verb

boi

1. Alternative spelling of boí

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.i/

Noun

boi f

1. inflection of boja:
   1. genitive/dative/locative singular
   2. genitive plural

Verb

boi

1. third-person singular present of bać

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Portuguese

boi

Etymology

From Old Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem), accusative of bōs, itself a borrowing from some Osco-Umbrian language dialect, from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈboj/
  • (Azores) IPA^(key): /ˈbø/
• Hyphenation: boi
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

boi m (plural bois, feminine vaca, feminine plural vacas)

1. ox

Related terms

• bezerro
• boiada

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [boj]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Turkish boy.

Noun

boi n (plural boiuri)

1. stature, appearance, mien, habitus

Declension

Declension of boi

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) boi	boiul	(niște) boiuri	boiurile
genitive/dative	(unui) boi	boiului	(unor) boiuri	boiurilor
vocative	boiule		boiurilor

Etymology 2

Back-formation from boia.

Verb

a boi (third-person singular present boiește, past participle boit) 4th conj.

1. (transitive) to paint
2. (reflexive, with accusative, derogatory) to put on make-up
3. (transitive) to fool

Conjugation

    conjugation of boi (fourth conjugation, -esc- infix)

infinitive			a boi
gerund			boind
past participle			boit
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	boiesc	boiești	boiește	boim	boiți	boiesc
	imperfect	boiam	boiai	boia	boiam	boiați	boiau
	simple perfect	boii	boiși	boi	boirăm	boirăți	boiră
	pluperfect	boisem	boiseși	boise	boiserăm	boiserăți	boiseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să boiesc	să boiești	să boiască	să boim	să boiți	să boiască
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		boiește			boiți
	negative		nu boi			nu boiți

Synonyms

• (to paint): colora, vopsi
• (to put on make-up): se farda, se sulimeni
• (to fool): înșela, păcăli

Etymology 3

Noun form

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boj/

Noun

boi m

1. plural of bou

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin bōs (“cow, bull”). Compare Italian bue.

Noun

boi m

1. (Campidanese) ox
2. (Campidanese) any head of cattle

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Welsh

Etymology

From English boy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔi̯/

Noun

boi m (plural bois)

1. (South Wales, colloquial) guy, lad, bloke, chap, dude, fella

   Synonym: bachan

2. (colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for a male. mate, dude, man

   Synonyms: achan, mêt

Usage notes

This is an informal term for a man, the standard term for which is dyn (“boy”). It can also be used in the vocative to address a male.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
boi	foi	moi	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “boi”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 杯 (MC puʌi).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /poːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: boi¹
• Hyphenation: boi

Noun

boi (Sawndip forms 盃, old orthography boi)

1. drinkware; cup; glass; mug

   Synonym: cenj

Classifier

boi (old orthography boi)

1. cup of; cupful of