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boyang

boyang is the alternative form of bowyang.

Meaning of bowyang

Noun

bowyang (plural bowyangs)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A strap worn below the knee, especially by labourers, to keep the trousers up or to stop them stretching while bending.
    • Jack McGrath […] travelled innocently beside his team in his faded red shirt, his moleskins, bowyangs, and heavy boots.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 75

Forms of boyang

pluralboyangs

Questions about boyang

What is boyang the alternative form of?
Boyang is the alternative form of bowyang.

Words near boyang in the dictionary

  1. Boyajian
  2. Boyajian's Star
  3. Boyajians
  4. Boyajyan
  5. Boyajyans
  6. boyang
  7. boyangs
  8. boyanore
  9. boyanores
  10. boyar
  11. boyard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boyang (page history and authors); bowyang (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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