boi
/bɔɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.40 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of Bank of India.
name
Initialism of Bank of Ireland.
name
Initialism of Bureau of Immigration.
noun
noun
Initialism of bill of information.
name
a style of Central Amazonian folk music
Example Sentences
- "The boi who has been my best friend, the cause of my pain, but never quite my lover is gone....I'm sitting here in his Radiohead "don't tell me what kind of day to have" tee (it smells like him) listening to WYIN, and trying not to cry."
- "And finally, in “Sk8er Boi,” Avril Lavigne tells us in her first two lines about the conflicts between the male and female by saying, “He was a boi, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious.”"
- "I inadvertently gave the afro-american delivery boi a $5 tip probably due to the fact that I had pickled a few brain cells."
- "Try to count how many times the king [of Hyrule] says "Mah Boi", because I don't know."
- "Bois lie, I can too / Revenge is my sweet tooth"
- "boi will be treated as a boi at all times and will find himself the recepitent ^([sic]) of many bare bottom spankings, private and in front of Daddies ^([sic]) friends."
Etymology
From Portuguese bumba-meu-boi, from boi (“bull”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bumba-meu-boi