boi
See also: Appendix:Variations of "boi"
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From boy.
NounEdit
boi (plural bois)
- (countable, slang, Internet) Alternative spelling of boy
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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.
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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.”
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- (BDSM, especially in roleplay) A male bottom (i.e. submissive partner), defined not by junior age, but by his obedient role, especially when that implies him being subject to spanking and/or other punishment by the dominant "top".
- A lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance.
- 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.
- 2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:
Derived termsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
CimbrianEdit
NounEdit
boi m (plural [please provide])
- (Luserna) wine
ReferencesEdit
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem), accusative of bōs.
NounEdit
boi m (plural bois)
See alsoEdit
PolishEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boi m (plural bois, feminine vaca, feminine plural vacas)
Related termsEdit
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
boi n (plural boiuri)
DeclensionEdit
declension of boi
Etymology 2Edit
Back-formation from boia.
VerbEdit
a boi (third-person singular present boiește, past participle boit) 4th conj.
- (transitive) to paint
- (reflexive, with accusative, pejorative) to put on make-up
- (transitive) to fool
ConjugationEdit
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 | |||||
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Etymology 3Edit
Noun form
NounEdit
boi m