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boi

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boi

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Barbareño.

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English

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Etymology

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From boy.

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Noun

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boi (plural bois or boiz)

  1. (slang, originally Internet slang) Alternative spelling of boy.
    • 2000 September 24, Liz Almond, “(ot) the boi is gone...”, in alt.music.placebo‎[1] (Usenet), retrieved 9 March 2008:
      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 9 March 2008:
      I inadvertently gave the afro-american delivery boi a $5 tip probably due to the fact that I had pickled a few brain cells.
    • 2007 December 7, Kuhneghetz, “YTP - King of Hyrule says "Mah Boi" for about 2 minutes”, in YouTube‎[4], retrieved 30 March 2025:
      Try to count how many times the king [of Hyrule] says "Mah Boi", because I don't know.
    • 2022, “Bois Lie”, in Love Sux, performed by Avril Lavigne:
      Bois lie, I can too / Revenge is my sweet tooth
  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"|STRICT DAD FOR BAD BOYS IN PORTLAND OREGON”, in alt.personals.spanking.punishment‎[5] (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.
    • 2004, Kelly A. Morris, Things - Now, Then & Strange‎[6], →ISBN, page 178:
      You, tattooed, butch boi with experience and a leash.
    • 2007, Will Kane, Forbidden Fruit: Psalms of a Black Master‎[7], →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. (LGBTQ) A lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance.
    • 2004 January 2, Ariel Levy, “Where the Bois Are”, in New York Magazine‎[8]:
      So new that most people—most lesbians—over the age of 30 have no idea what a boi is. […] 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. (neologism) A trans boy; a trans man or transmasculine person.
    • 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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Interjection

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boi

  1. Alternative spelling of boy (“exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing”).

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Bangi

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀jíkɪ̀.

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boi

  1. honey

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 Proto-Germanic *wīną, from Latin vīnum. Cognate with German Wein, English wine.

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boi m

  1. (Luserna) wine

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Galician

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A Galician boi of cachena breed

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem). Compare Portuguese boi.

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boi m (plural bois)

  1. ox; sometimes bull
    Synonym: almallo
    • 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
  2. steer
  3. brown crab (Cancer pagurus)
    Synonyms: boi de mar, esqueiro, noca

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Garo

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Borrowed from Bengali বই (boi).

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boi

  1. book

Indonesian

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From Dutch boy, from English boy.

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boi (plural boi-boi)

  1. (colloquial) a male servant

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Jingpho

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Burmese ပွဲစား (pwai:ca:).

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boi

  1. loan

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  • Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎[9], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Lakurumau

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boi

  1. pig

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  • Lidia Mazzitelli, Documentation of Lakurumau: Making the case for one more language in Papua New Guinea (2020)

Lingala

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Bangi boi.

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boi class 14

  1. honey

Louisiana Creole

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Etymology

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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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Etymology

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From Hokkien 梅 (bôe).

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boi (Jawi spelling بوي, plural boi-boi or boi2)

  1. Chinese plum

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Mansaka

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Etymology

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From buhi.

Adjective

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boi

  1. live

Middle Irish

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Verb

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boi

  1. alternative spelling of boí

Mutation

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Mutation of boi
radical lenition nasalization
boi boi
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mboi

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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PIE word
*gʷṓws

Inherited from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem). Cognate with Old Spanish buey and Old French buef.

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boi m (plural bois)

  1. ox

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Descendants

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  • Fala: boi
  • Galician: boi
  • Portuguese: boi

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Old Irish

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Verb

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boi

  1. alternative spelling of boí

Mutation

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Mutation of boi
radical lenition nasalization
boi boi
pronounced with /β-/		 mboi

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.i/
  • Rhymes: -ɔi
  • Syllabification: bo‧i

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boi f

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

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boi

  1. third-person singular present of bać

Portuguese

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 boi on Portuguese Wikipedia
 
boi

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Etymology

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PIE word
*gʷṓws

Inherited 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. Compare Galician boi, and Sicilian voi. Doublet of bife.

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

  1. ox
    • 1974, “Urubu tá com raiva do boi”, performed by Baiano e os Novos Caetanos:
      Urubu tá com raiva do boi / E eu já sei que ele tem razão / É que o urubu tá querendo comer / Mas o boi não quer morrer / Não tem alimentação
      The vulture is angry at the ox / And I already know he's right / It's just that the vulture wanna dine / But the ox dun' wanna die / Ain't no food
  2. (derogatory) corpulent person
  3. (Brazil, derogatory, figurative) cuckold (man married to an unfaithful wife)
    Synonym: corno
  4. (Pernambuco, derogatory) ugly person
  5. (Northeast Brazil, colloquial) menstruation
  6. (Brazil, prison slang) toilet
  7. (Portugal, derogatory) dumb person

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Réunion Creole French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From French bois.

Noun

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boi

  1. wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)
    Alternative forms: doboi, (High Creole) dboi
  2. stick (elongated piece of wood)
  3. woods, forest

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  • Armand, Alain (1987), Dictionnaire Kréol rénioné/Français [Reunionese Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Océan Éditions, →ISBN, page 44

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوی (boy).

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boi n (plural boiuri)

  1. stature, appearance, mien, habitus
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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative boi boiul boiuri boiurile
genitive-dative boi boiului 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 conjugation

  1. (transitive) to paint
    Synonyms: colora, vopsi
  2. (reflexive, with accusative, derogatory) to put on make-up
    Synonyms: se farda, se sulimeni
  3. (transitive) to fool
    Synonyms: înșela, păcăli
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    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

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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boi m

  1. plural of bou

Sardinian

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Etymology

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

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boi m

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

Sranan Tongo

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Alternative forms

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  • boy (unofficial)

Etymology

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From English boy.

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boi

  1. boy
  2. son
    Synonym: manpikin
  3. (colloquial) thing (compare similar use of English guy)

Swahili

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boybor.
Swahili boi

    Borrowed from English boy.

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    boi class V (plural maboi class VI)

    1. houseboy

    Tày

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    boi

    1. to shake object inside a hole
      Synonyms: bứt, vặt, bút
      boi khỉ xu ― to pick one's ear

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    • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎[10] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

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    boi

    1. (transitive) to throw away, throw out

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    Conjugation of boi
    singular plural
    inclusive exclusive
    1st person toboi foboi miboi
    2nd person noboi niboi
    3rd
    person     		masculine oboi iboi
    yoboi (archaic)
    feminine moboi
    neuter iboi

    Tok Pisin

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    From English boy. Cognate with Bislama and Pijin boe.

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    boi

    1. (archaic, offensive) A black man in colonial New Guinea.

    Welsh

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    Borrowed from English boy.

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    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

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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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    Mutation

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    Mutated forms of boi
    radical soft nasal aspirate
    boi foi moi unchanged

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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    • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “boi”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
    • 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 pwoj).

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    boi (Sawndip form 盃, 1957–1982 spelling boi)

    1. drinkware; cup; glass; mug
      Synonym: cenj

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    boi (1957–1982 spelling boi)

    1. cup of; cupful of
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