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boymode

/ˈbɔɪmoʊd/

boymode noun: the state of presenting as male, especially while undergoing feminizing HRT.

Noun

boymode (uncountable)

  1. (transgender slang) The state of presenting as male, especially while undergoing feminizing HRT.
    • Coordinate term: girlmode
    • I was out in semi-boymode tonight and some drunk Scottish guy walked up to me in the street and said "Aye pal, you tryna become a lassie?" I was just like "Umm I guess" super embarrassedly, and he said "ah well good on ya, don't let nae cunt tell you who you are, be yoursel"2021 October 7, @Vamp_Page, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023

Verb

boymode (third-person singular simple present boymodes, present participle boymoding, simple past and past participle boymoded)

  1. (especially, intransitive) To present as male, especially while undergoing feminizing HRT.
    • Coordinate term: girlmode
    • We are 6 months away from cis girls posting that they're boymoding for not putting on makeup to go to the corner store2022 February 20, @SmoothShinyShae, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023

Examples of boymode in a sentence

  • ...just been told I look better in boymode...2021 September 1, @babethebashful, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:
  • Before I came out as trans I was in boymode at work and this girl came up to me and goes "You're not fooling anyone" I was like "Huh?" she goes "You're one of them girls pretending to be a boy.2021 December 3, @InkMasterbator, Twitter, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2021:
  • I boymoded 24/7 my first 15 months on HRT.2022 August 20, @autogynamelia, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2022:
  • when you're 6 months on HRT but still trying to boymode2022 December 18, @halomancer1, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023:

Forms of boymode

third-person singular presentboymodes
present participleboymoding
past participleboymoded
pastboymoded

Origin of boymode

From boy + mode.

Words formed from boymode

Questions about boymode

What does boymode mean?
Boymode means the state of presenting as male, especially while undergoing feminizing HRT.
How do you use boymode in a sentence?
...just been told I look better in boymode...
What part of speech is boymode?
Boymode can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce boymode?
Boymode is pronounced /ˈbɔɪmoʊd/ (US).

Words near boymode in the dictionary

  1. boylovers
  2. boyloving
  3. Boylston
  4. boyly
  5. boymilk
  6. boymode
  7. boymoded
  8. boymoder
  9. boymoders
  10. boymodes
  11. boymoding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boymode (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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