Etymology

t-boy

Today it means: A trans man. Full definition →

Cajun French petit
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The story

  1. Cajun French · derived frompetit“little”
  2. English todayT-Boy

From Cajun French petit (“little”) (dialectally pronounced /ti/) + English boy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.