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boyfriending

boyfriending noun: the act of being a boyfriend. Also the present participle and gerund of boyfriend.

Noun

boyfriending (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, informal, often, uncommon) The act of being a boyfriend.
    • You "listen" to her? By choice?? And it didn't kill you, but actually made you both happy? What a concept! Can you add that to your curriculum...."Boyfriending 101"? ;-)1999 August 27, Tammy, “Yet ANOTHER Baa Baa poll!”, in rec.music.artists.stevie-nicks (Usenet)
    • And the now insistent implication—something Theresa always seems to evoke for me—is not that Rita might view my years of boyfriending in a similar metaphorical light (which she no doubt does), or that there might be anything I can do to reform her perspective (save the usual dumb and desperate...2004, Chang-rae Lee, chapter 9, in Aloft, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 244

Also used as

boyfriending is also the present participle and gerund of boyfriend.

Origin of boyfriending

From boyfriend + -ing.

Questions about boyfriending

What does boyfriending mean?
Boyfriending means the act of being a boyfriend.
What part of speech is boyfriending?
Boyfriending is a noun.

Words near boyfriending in the dictionary

  1. boyfriend loophole
  2. boyfriend-ish
  3. boyfriendable
  4. boyfriended
  5. boyfriendhood
  6. boyfriending
  7. boyfriendish
  8. boyfriendless
  9. boyfriendlessness
  10. boyfriendo
  11. boyfriendos

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