Word.ws English Dictionary

boykie

boykie is the alternative form of boitjie.

Meaning of boitjie

Noun

boitjie (plural boitjies)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A sporty young man; a jock.
    • 'It's a local fish - tastes just like barracuda,' said Leo from behind the bar as we dug into platteland-size plates of fish. A bunch of boitjies stood resting their boeps against the counter and talking about fish size and breast size.2002, Justin Fox, With both hands waving: a journey through Mozambique, page 44

Forms of boykie

pluralboykies

Questions about boykie

What is boykie the alternative form of?
Boykie is the alternative form of boitjie.

Words near boykie in the dictionary

  1. boyishness
  2. boyishnesses
  3. boyism
  4. boyisms
  5. boyitis
  6. boykie
  7. boykies
  8. boykin
  9. Boykin Spaniel
  10. Boykin Spaniels
  11. boykind

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boykie (page history and authors); boitjie (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “boykie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/boykie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.