boi

boi

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Barbareño terms

From boy.

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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.

• gurl
• araca-boi (separate etymology)

• Bio, IBO, IOB, Ibo, bio, bio-, bio., obi

• IPA^(key): /βoi/

boi

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

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

• bain

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.

boi m

1. (Luserna) wine

• bòivarbe

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈboj/ [ˈboj]
• Rhymes: -oj

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

• andar ao boi
• se non é vaca é boi

• touro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “boi”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “boi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “boi”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “boi”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “boi”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “boi”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Bengali বই (boi).

boi

1. book

From Dutch boy, from English boy.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈboi̯/ [ˈboi̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Syllabification: boi

boi (plural boi-boi)

1. (colloquial) a male servant

• “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.

Borrowed from Burmese ပွဲစား (pwai:ca:).

boi

1. loan

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

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

boi

1. to drink

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

From Hokkien 梅 (bôe).

• IPA^(key): /ˈboj/ [ˈboi̯]

boi (Jawi spelling بوي, plural boi-boi)

1. Chinese plum

From buhi.

boi

1. live

boi

1. alternative spelling of boí

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.

boi m (plural bois)

1. ox

• olho de boi

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

• Universo Cantigas - "boi"

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

boi f

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

boi

1. third-person singular present of bać

• boy (obsolete)

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. Doublet of bife.

• (São Miguel, Azores) IPA^(key): /ˈbø/

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• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: boi

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

• “boi”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “boi”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “boi”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

• бой (boi) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /boj/

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوی (boy).

boi n (plural boiuri)

1. stature, appearance, mien, habitus

Back-formation from boia.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boi m

1. plural of bou

• boe, bove

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

boi m

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

• boy (unofficial)

From English boy.

• IPA^(key): /boi̯/

boi

1. boy
2. son

   Synonym: manpikin

3. (colloquial) thing (compare similar use of English guy)

Borrowed from English boy.

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boi class V (plural maboi class VI)

1. houseboy

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓɔj˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓɔj˦˥]

boi

1. to shake object inside a hole

   Synonyms: bứt, vặt, bút

   boi khỉ xu ― to pick one's ear

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo.i]

boi

1. (transitive) to throw away, throw out

From English boy.

• IPA^(key): /bɔi̯/
• Rhymes: -ɔi̯

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

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.

• 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

From Chinese 杯 (MC pwoj).

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

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

1. drinkware; cup; glass; mug

   Synonym: cenj

boi (1957–1982 spelling boi)

1. cup of; cupful of