soft boy
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of softboy.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see soft, boy.
Example Sentences
- "Mac an Ghaill (2002) raises the intriguing possibility that the majority of boys are soft boys, and that masculinity scholars have yet to develop the vocabulary and means of analysis to tackle this."
- "Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in Urbana, Illinois, Craig Norberg-Bohm was “always a soft boy, always more sensitive. I was afraid of the guys who were harder.""
- "Steven Cohan highlights the suggestive qualities of Red Rivers dominant narrative, the opposition between the radically different masculinities Clift and Wayne represent: "the highly charged context between the soft boy' and the hard man in Red River dramatizes such a shift in the mainstream culture's demands upon masculinity"."