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soft boys

soft boys is the plural of soft boy.

Meaning of soft boy

Noun

soft boy (plural soft boys)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see soft, boy.
    • Steven Cohan highlights the suggestive qualities of Red Rivers dominant narrative, the opposition between the radically different masculinities Clift and Wayne represent: "the highly charged context between the soft boy and the hard man in '''Red River dramatizes such a shift in the mainstream...2013, Elisabetta Girelli, Montgomery Clift, Queer Star, page 33

Questions about soft boys

What is soft boys the plural of?
Soft boys is the plural of soft boy.

Words near soft boys in the dictionary

  1. soft boiled
  2. soft bomb
  3. soft bombs
  4. soft boxing
  5. soft boy
  6. soft boys
  7. soft break
  8. soft breaks
  9. soft Brexit
  10. soft butch
  11. soft butches

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