SolangeRichards
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ORIGINAL: SolangeRichards I get the part about the word being coined and used in the lesbian community, the definition given was the one I use as well, but... Why so sour toward the OPs usage of the term? I've seen "boi" used to describe straght men often on the net, just like I've seen "ur" used insted of "your". Maybe the OP was being more breezy with that particular term than you might like but I frankly don't see her using it as being disrespectful to the gay community nor do I think she was being stupid, or as you put it having a, "less than a creative mind" Language is a very fluid thing, slang language most of all, and thankfully that is so, because if it were not we would all be opening our posts saying "Gadzooks!"... Let me ask you... Do you think that someone can get what they're seeking in life, any part of life, if they're using the wrong language in asking for it? To me it's like bitching that you don't have an "apple" when you really mean and "orange" but you keep asking for an "apple". Make sense? boi Well, it makes a great deal of sense, when one is shopping for fruits and vegetables, but the slope is a bit slippier when it comes to the word "boi".... Apple and orange are words with accepted meanings that one can review in a dictionary. Boi however is not a word at all, in the sense that neither the Oxford or the Merriam Webster dictionaries have it listed with a definition. I'm sure that the wordsmiths at both firms are aware of the word, but unlisted it remains. Like me, they might have "looked into" the term a bit, and perhaps found some of what I did. Just in a quick review of the word via Google I found the definition that we both use, but found the term popping up in a number of other places, describing different people. I found it being used by lesbians, homosexuals, African-Americans, Jamaicans, Northern New Jersey preppies, goths, skater punks, graffitti artists and Lord knows who else because there are over 31 million Google entries for this term! The really wild thing is that the term means different things to a very wide range of folks out there.... Gadzooks!
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