boy friend

noun

Dated spelling of boyfriend.

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Meanings

nounboy friend (plural boy friends)

plural boy friends

  1. Dated spelling of boyfriend.

    What are diplomatic boy friends for unless to borrow champagne off?

    1929, Nancy Hoyt, Promise Not to Tell, New York, N.Y.: Horace Liveright, →OCLC, page 41
    1 more example

    "Lane Coutell. He's only been Franny's boy friend for a whole year. ..." "The expression is Franny's 'young man,'" he said, "not her 'boy friend.' Why are you so out of date, Bessie? […]"

    1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 96
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Chicago

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