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^[1] (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^[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^[3] (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.

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".
   • 2004, Kelly A. Morris, Things - Now, Then & Strange‎^[4], →ISBN, page 178:

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

   • 2007, Will Kane, Forbidden Fruit: Psalms of a Black Master‎^[5], →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

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.

Noun

boi m

1. (Luserna) wine

References

• 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

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Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

boi m (plural bois)

1. ox
2. steer
3. A kind of edible marine crab

See also

• touro

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch boy, from English boy.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boi (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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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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 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboj/
• Hyphenation: boi
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

boi m (plural s, 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

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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Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 杯 (MC pwoj).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boi (1957–1982 spelling boi)

1. drinkware; cup; glass; mug

   Synonym: cenj

Classifier

boi (1957–1982 spelling boi)

1. cup of; cupful of