boi – Wiktionary

English

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From boy.

Noun

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boi (plural bois)

  1. (

    countable

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    originally slang

    originally Internet

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    boy

    Alternative spelling of

    • 2000 September 24, Liz Almond, “(ot) the boi is gone…”, in alt.music.placebo‎[1] (

      September 24, Liz Almond, “(ot) the boi is gone…”, in Usenet ), retrieved :

      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:

      , Molly-Ann Leikin,, 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[3] (

      August 5, “Zonee”, “Ungratefull fucking pizza….”, in Usenet ), retrieved :

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

    • 2022, “Bois Lie”, in Love Sux, performed by

      , “Bois Lie”, in, performed by Avril Lavigne

      Bois lie, I can too / Revenge is my sweet tooth

  2. (

    BDSM

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    especially in roleplay

    especially in roleplay

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    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[4] (

      March 14, “”MR MARKS””, in Usenet ):

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

      boi will be treated as aat all times and will find himself the recepitentof many bare bottom spankings, private and in front of Daddiesfriends.

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

      , Kelly A. Morris,, 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:

      , Will Kane,, 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

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  3. (

    LGBT

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    A lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance.

    • 2004 January 2, Ariel Levy, “Where the Bois Are”, in New York Magazine‎[7]:

      January 2, Ariel Levy, “Where the Bois Are”, in

      Most bois are in their twenties and have come of age in a time when women’s and gay rights seem like more of a given and less of an urgent struggle than they did to lesbians ten or twenty or more years older.

  4. (

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    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.

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  • gurl
  • araca-boi

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Chibcha

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boi

  1. blanket, cape; Long garment that covers most of the body.

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  • Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Cimbrian

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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

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boi m

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  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Galician

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A Galician boi of cachena breed

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

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Noun

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boi m (plural bois)

  1. ox; sometimes bull
    • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, 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

    almallo
  2. steer
  3. brown crab

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    Cancer pagurus

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    boi de maresqueironoca

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  • “boi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI – ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “boi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez – Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “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.

Garo

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Borrowed from Bengali বই (boi).

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boi

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch boy, from English boy.

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  • IPA(key):

    [ˈboi]

  • Hyphenation:

    boi

Noun

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

  1. (

    colloquial

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    A male servant.

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Jingpho

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Borrowed from Burmese ပွဲစား (pwai:ca:).

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boi

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  • Kurabe, Keita ( ), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎[8], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Louisiana Creole

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

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boi

  1. to drink

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  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Malay

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From Min Nan (bôe).

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boi (Jawi spelling بوي‎, plural boiboi, informal 1st possessive boiku, 2nd possessive boimu, 3rd possessive boinya)

Mansaka

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From buhi.

Adjective

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boi

Middle Irish

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boi

  1. boí

    Alternative spelling of

Polish

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boi f

  1. boja

    inflection of

    1. genitive

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      dative

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      locativesingular

    2. genitive plural

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boi

Portuguese

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boi on Portuguese Wikipedia

on Portuguese Wikipedia

boi

Alternative forms

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  • boyobsolete)

Etymology

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From Old Galician-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. Doublet of bife.

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  • (

    Azores

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    IPA(key):

    /ˈbø/

  • Rhymes:

    -oj

  • Hyphenation:

    boi

Noun

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

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Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوی‎ (boy).

Noun

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boi n (plural boiuri)

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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

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Back-formation from boia.

Verb

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

Conjugation

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boi (fourth conjugation, -esc- infix)

conjugation of

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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Noun form

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boi m

Sardinian

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

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boi m

  1. (

    Campidanese

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    ox

  2. (

    Campidanese

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    any head of cattle

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From English boy.

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boi

  1. boy
  2. son
    manpikin
  3. (

    colloquial

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    thing (compare similar use of English guy)

Swahili

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Borrowed from English boy.

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  • Audio (Kenya)

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boi (ma class, plural maboi)

Ternate

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boi

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Conjugation of boi

Singular

Plural

Inclusive

Exclusive

1st

toboi
foboi
miboi

2nd

noboi
niboi

3rd

Masculine

oboi
iboiyoboi

Feminine

moboi

Neuter

iboi
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Welsh

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Etymology

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From English boy.

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boi m (plural bois)

Usage notes

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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.

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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.

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  • 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

Zhuang

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Etymology

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From Chinese 杯 (MC puʌi).

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  • (

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    IPA(key):

    /poːi˨˦/

  • Tone numbers: boi1
  • Hyphenation: boi

Noun

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boi (Sawndip form , 1957–1982 spelling boi)

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boi (1957–1982 spelling boi)

  1. cup of; cupful of

Alternate Text Gọi ngay