Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boydyke

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: boy-dyke
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lesbian with a masculine presentation and/or identification. (Chiefly used as a self-descriptor and by butch or gender-nonconforming lesbians.)

Slang

Example Sentences

"But I don't think boydykes have dibs on playing with gender: I too like the sexiness of a floating signifier."
"Thus, research designs that operationalize sexual identity in a unidimensional, fixed, limited, forced-choice manner omit most of the homoerotic youth who assume unspecified sexual identities (e.g., two-spirit, boydyke, omnisexual, trans-boi), […]"
"In 2000, several 'trannie boys, boydykes, FTMs, Lesbian Avengers and young gender-variant women' - who were not transsexual women - were evicted from the festival for their refusal to identify as 'womyn-born womyn'[…]"

Etymology

From boy + dyke.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

boydykes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

girlfaggot

Questions

What does boydyke mean?: A lesbian with a masculine presentation and/or identification. (Chiefly used as a self-descriptor and by butch or gender-nonconforming lesbians.)
Where does boydyke come from?: From boy + dyke.

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