boi
See also: Appendix:Variations of "boi"
English
Etymology
From boy.
Noun
boi (plural bois)
- (countable, slang, Internet) Alternative spelling of boy
- 2000 September 24, Liz Almond, “(ot) the boi is gone...”, in alt.music.placebo, Usenet, 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, →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, 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.
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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".
- 2002 March 14, “MR MARKS”, in alt.personals.spanking.punishment, Usenet:
- 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.
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- 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 terms
See also
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- bain, bàin
Etymology
From Middle High German wīn, from Old High German wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, from Latin vīnum. Cognate with German Wein, Dutch wijn, English wine, Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽 (wein).
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
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem), accusative of bōs.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.i/
Noun
boi
Verb
boi
- third-person singular present of bać się
Portuguese
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.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [boj]
Declension
declension of boi
singular | plural | |||
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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.
- (transitive) to paint
- (reflexive, with accusative, derogatory) to put on make-up
- (transitive) to fool
Conjugation
conjugation of boi (fourth conjugation, -esc- infix)
infinitive | a boi | ||||||
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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
Etymology 3
Noun form
Sardinian
Zhuang
Etymology
Compare 杯 (bēi).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /poːi˨˦/
- Tone numbers: boi1
- Hyphenation: boi
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