Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A favored male companion or sweetheart.
- n. A male friend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A male partner in a romantic relationship.
- n. A male friend.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also, I have this sinking suspicion that the guy next to Samar is her douche of a boyfriend and RAWR MAI HAIT. *kicks loser boyfriend* I think Uncle Sandeep and her mom Sharan should have been in the cover with Samar instead.
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Ali had had a boyfriend, but at her age the word boyfriend rankled.
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She said the word boyfriend as if she were saying Hitler! or Your goddamn secretary!
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Sit next to your boyfriend, Ariana said, emphasizing the word boyfriend a bit so that Palmer would definitely hear.
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A character using the term "boyfriend" was deemed by some fans of the show as a modern word too far on online forums.
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Perhaps we abuse the term boyfriend, using it to refer to someone we might be seeing for only six weeks or so of good old between-the-sheets fun.
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I have nt read the books and I have to say that if they had finished the episode with Elena accepting the fact that her boyfriend is a vampire I would have been seriously disappointed.
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He cited the word boyfriend, which he says was in print in 1889 so would have been in speech before that.
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But viewers spotted apparent anachronisms – such as the use of the word boyfriend, a TV aerial fixed to a home, a modern conservatory and double yellow lines on a road – in the first series.
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His voice cracked on the word boyfriend, and he turned away, crying again, holding a hand towel over his eyes.
chained_bear commented on the word boyfriend
Why isn't it just "a male friend"?
November 17, 2008
kewpid commented on the word boyfriend
Weirdnet's restrictive definition.
November 16, 2008
bilby commented on the word boyfriend
??
November 16, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word boyfriend
Weirdnet is homophobic.
November 16, 2008