Boi in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Boi

You can make 8 words from 'boi' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'boi'
• 2 letters words from 'boi'

3 letters words from 'boi'

BIO 5	BOI 5
OBI 5

2 letters words from 'boi'

BI 4	BO 4
IO 2	OB 4
OI 2

Definitions and meaning of boi

boi

Etymology

From boy.

Noun

boi (plural bois)

1. (countable, Internet slang) Alternative spelling of boy
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".
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. Cognate with German Wein, English wine.

Noun

boi m

1. (Luserna) wine

Derived terms

• bòivarbe

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

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔj/

Noun

boi m (plural bois)

1. ox; sometimes bull
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), 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

   Synonym: almallo

2. steer
3. brown crab (Cancer pagurus)

   Synonyms: boi de mar, esqueiro, noca

Derived terms

• andar ao boi

See also

• touro

References

• “boi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “boi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch boy, from English boy.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boi (plural, 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 (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Middle Irish

Verb

boi

1. Alternative spelling of boí

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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

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.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈboj/
  • (Azores) IPA^(key): /ˈbø/
• Hyphenation: boi
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

boi m (plural bois, 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

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

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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Welsh

Etymology

From English boy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔi̯/

Noun

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

Usage notes

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.

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950-), “boi”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 杯 (MC puʌi).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boi (old orthography boi, Sawndip forms 盃)

1. drinkware; cup; glass; mug

   Synonym: cenj

Classifier

boi (old orthography boi)

1. cup of; cupful of

Source: wiktionary.org

• (slang) a lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance or manners.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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