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bois

bois is the plural of boi.

Meaning of boi

Noun

boi (plural bois or boiz)

  1. (especially) A male bottom (i.e. submissive partner), defined not by junior age, but by his obedient role and submission to the dominant "top".
    • 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.2002 March 14, “"MR MARKS"|STRICT DAD FOR BAD BOYS IN PORTLAND OREGON”, in alt.personals.spanking.punishment (Usenet)
  2. A lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance.
    • So new that most people—most lesbians—over the age of 30 have no idea what a boi is. […] Most bois are in their twenties and have come of age in a time when women’s and gay rights seem like more of a given and less of an urgent struggle than they did to lesbians ten or twenty or more years older.2004 January 2, Ariel Levy, “Where the Bois Are”, in New York Magazine
  3. (neologism) A trans boy; a trans man or transmasculine person.
    • For example, “queer” would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the “opposite sex,” sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of...2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies

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Noun capitalized: BOIs

BOIs

  1. (plural) plural of BOI

Proper noun capitalized: Bois

Bois (plural Boises)

  1. A surname from French, related to Dubois.

Forms of bois

pluralBoises

Origin of bois

Borrowed from French Bois.

Phrases with bois

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Questions about bois

What does bois mean?
Bois means a surname from French, related to Dubois.
What is bois the plural of?
Bois is the plural of boi.
What part of speech is bois?
Bois can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near bois in the dictionary

  1. boipussies
  2. boipussy
  3. Boiro
  4. Boiron
  5. Boirons
  6. bois
  7. bois bande
  8. Bois Brule
  9. Bois Caiman
  10. Bois Caïman
  11. bois d'arc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bois (page history and authors); BOIs (page history and authors); Bois (page history and authors); boi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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