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femboy

Syllables: fem·boy/ˈfɛm.bɔɪ//ˈfɛm.boɪ/

femboy noun: a (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine aesthetic and has an androgynous appearance.

femboy: a (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine aesthetic and has an...
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Noun

femboy (plural femboys)

  1. A (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine aesthetic and has an androgynous appearance.
    • A Thai boy is allowed to be effeminate. Such boys are accepted in school and in their villages, and their effeminacy is simply considered to be a part of their character. “In such an open society it could well be the case that these femboys feel more able to experiment and to develop their feminine...2015, Charles Cadman, Phallus Aforethought
    • 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

femboy meaning in Arabic and Indonesian

femboy in Arabic

male with feminine aesthetics
وَلَد مُخَنَّث walad muḵannaṯ, فِمْبُوي fimbūy

femboy in Indonesian

male with feminine aesthetics
femboy

Synonyms of femboy

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All synonyms of femboy

Forms of femboy

pluralfemboys

Origin of femboy

From fem- (“feminine”) + boy.

Words formed from femboy

Questions about femboy

What does femboy mean?
Femboy means a (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine aesthetic and has an androgynous appearance.
What is femboy in Arabic?
Femboy in Arabic is وَلَد مُخَنَّث (walad muḵannaṯ), فِمْبُوي (fimbūy). See Femboy meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is femboy?
Femboy is a noun.
How do you pronounce femboy?
Femboy is pronounced /ˈfɛm.bɔɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of femboy?
The plural of femboy is femboys.

Words near femboy in the dictionary

  1. fembles
  2. femboi
  3. fembois
  4. fembot
  5. fembots
  6. femboy
  7. femboydom
  8. femboydoms
  9. femboyish
  10. femboyishly
  11. femboyishness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: femboy (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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