different between girl vs boi

English

Alternative forms

• girle, gyrle (obsolete)
• gal (colloquial)
• guhrl, gurl (nonstandard)
• grrrl, grrl (slang)

Etymology

From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person of any gender”), of uncertain origin. Probably from Old English *gyrle, *gyrele, from Proto-Germanic *gurwilaz, a diminutive form of Proto-Germanic *gurwijaz (compare North Frisian gör (“girl”), Low German Gör, Göre (“child of any gender”), German Göre (“young child”), dialectal Norwegian gorre, dialectal Swedish garre, gurre (“small child”)), from Proto-Indo-European *??er- (“short”) (compare Old Irish gair (“short”), Ancient Greek ???? (khre?, “need, necessity”), ??????? (khr?sthai, “to need”), Sanskrit ?????? (hrasva, “short, small”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???l/, (obsolete) /???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /???l/, [??w]
• Rhymes: -??(?)l
• Homophone: Guirl

Noun

girl (countable and uncountable, plural girls)

1. A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:boy

   • 2006, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness, volume 3 of Scott Pilgrim

     Scott: Hey, it's our 8-month anniversary.

     Envy: Really? I can't even believe you remember that stuff!

     Scott: Whoa, wait a second... Am I the girl in this relationship?

     Envy: You totally are!
2. A young female animal.
3. (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
4. A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)

   Synonyms: char, charlady, charwoman, maid, maiden, maidservant, womanservant

5. (uncommon, card games) A queen (the playing card.)
6. (colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)

   Synonyms: girlie, lass, lassie

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 8–9:

     'Now, girls,' continued Healey, 'you're very high-spirited and that's as it should be but I won't have you getting out of hand...' Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through the pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.

7. One's girlfriend.
   • 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood

     There isn't any guy going to steal my girl!
8. One's daughter.

9. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A roebuck two years old.
10. (US, slang, uncountable) Cocaine, especially in powder form.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cocaine

    • 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Cash Money Content (2011), ?ISBN, page 43:

      She had taught me to snort girl, and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.

    • 1977, Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, Holloway House (1987), ?ISBN, page 175:

      Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl.

    • 2005, K'wan, Hoodlum, St. Martin's Press (2005), ?ISBN, page 185:

      After about an hour or two of half-ass sex and snorting girl, Honey was zoned out. […] She flexed her still numb fingers, trying to find a warmth that didn't seem to come. Cocaine always made her numb.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:girl.
11. (somewhat childish) A female (tree, gene, etc).
    • 1950, Pageant:

      Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...

    • 1970 [earlier 1963], Helen V. Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, Helen Van Pelt's African Violets, Dutton Adult (?ISBN):

      Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.

    • 1972, GSN Gesneriad Saintpaulia News: African Violets, Gloxinias, Other Gesneriads and Exotic Plants:

      When there are two "girl" genes the plant is a girl dwarf.

12. (derogatory) A boy or man who is weak or sentimental.

    Synonyms: Jessie, sissy, wimp

    Don't be such a girl!

Usage notes

• (any woman, regardless of her age): An adult calling a grown woman a "girl" may be considered either a compliment or an insult, depending on context and sensibilities. In some cases, the term is used as a euphemism for virgin, to distinguish a female who has never engaged in sexual intercourse (a "girl") from one who has done so (and is a woman). Even if the word "girl" in most cases is not meant to be derogatory, it may still be patronising sometimes, especially when used to address someone older than oneself.
• (term of endearment): When used as a term of endearment, it can be used for someone female or, in some contexts, for someone male, such as the use within the gay community.

Derived terms

Pages starting with “girl”.

Descendants

• ? Hungarian: görl
• ? Japanese: ??? (g?ru)

Translations

References

Verb

girl (third-person singular simple present girls, present participle girling, simple past and past participle girled)

1. (transitive) To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
2. (somewhat informal) To staff with or as a girl or girls.
   • 1949, The New Yorker:

     Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]

   • 1961, The Georgia Review:

     Her first shock came when the ship on which she and her husband arrived was met by three boats “girled” by “great, splendid creatures, as tall as our millionaires' tallest daughters, and as strong-looking as any of our college-girl athletes,” ...

   • 1986, Marcus Cunliffe, The Literature of the United States, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books (?ISBN):

     She and her Altrurian diplomat husband, arriving there by sea, are greeted by flower-laden boats, each not manned, but girled by six rowers, who pulled as true a stroke as I ever saw.

   • 2009, Linda Howard, Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 220:

     To her disappointment, the chatty Carlene DuBois wasn't behind the desk; instead it was manned—or girled—by a frothy little blonde who barely looked old enough to be out of high school.

See also

• miss

Anagrams

• LIRG, gril

French

Noun

girl f (plural girls)

1. dancing girl

English

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. (neologism) A lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance.
4. (neologism) 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
• femboi

See also

• gurl

Anagrams

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

Chibcha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oi/

Noun

boi

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

References

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

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• bain

Etymology

From Middle High German w?n, from Old High German w?n, from Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num. 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 isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?j/

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.

Garo

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali ?? (bôi).

Noun

boi

1. book

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch boy, from English boy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?boi]
• 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 (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ?????? (pwai:ca:)

Noun

boi

1. loan

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research?^[7], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

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

Verb

boi

1. to drink

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Middle Irish

Verb

boi

1. Alternative spelling of boí

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.i/

Noun

boi f

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

Verb

boi

1. third-person singular present of ba?

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem), accusative of b?s, itself a borrowing from some Osco-Umbrian language dialect, from Proto-Italic *g??s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g??ws. Doublet of bife.

Pronunciation

• (Azores) IPA^(key): /?bø/
• Hyphenation: boi
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

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

1. ox

Related terms

• bezerro
• boiada

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 boie?te, 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): în?ela, p?c?li

Etymology 3

Noun form

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boj/

Noun

boi m

1. plural of bou

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• boe, bove

Etymology

From Latin b?s (“cow, bull”). Compare Italian bue.

Noun

boi m

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

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English boy

Noun

boi

1. boy
2. son

   Synonym: manpikin

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

Welsh

Etymology

From English boy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?i?/

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–present) , “boi”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC pu?i).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /po?i??/
• Tone numbers: boi¹
• Hyphenation: boi

Noun

boi (Sawndip form ?, old orthography boi)

1. drinkware; cup; glass; mug

   Synonym: cenj

Classifier

boi (old orthography boi)

1. cup of; cupful of