boyf
/bɔɪf
/noun British informal
A person’s boyfriend: she’s just been dumped by her boyf...
- Anyway, I got to wondering why I don't have a boyf.
- It's hard now that my boyf has started up studying again.
- I helped my boyf get a very prestigious research grant.
Origin
1990s: abbreviation.
- contrariness
- contrarious
- contrariwise
- contra-rotating
- contrary
- contrary to
- contrast
- contrastingly
- contrastive
- contrast medium
- contrasty
- contra-suggestible
- contrate wheel
- contravene
- contravener
- contravention
- contrecoup
- contredanse
- contre-jour
- contretemps
- contribute
- contribution
- contributive
- contributor
- contributory