Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boys' love

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.96 in modern English

Syllables
boys' love
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters; yaoi

Uncountable

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from boys + love.

Usage

Synonyms

BL

Questions

What does boys' love mean?
a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters; yaoi
Where does boys' love come from?
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from boys + love.

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