Meanings
- humorousinformaloftenuncommonuncountableThe act of being a boyfriend.
You "listen" to her? By choice?? And it didn't kill you, but actually made you both happy? What a concept! Can you add that to your curriculum...."Boyfriending 101"? ;-)
1999 August 27, Tammy, “Yet ANOTHER Baa Baa poll!”, in rec.music.artists.stevie-nicks (Usenet)2 more examples
And the now insistent implication—something Theresa always seems to evoke for me—is not that Rita might view my years of boyfriending in a similar metaphorical light (which she no doubt does), or that there might be anything I can do to reform her perspective (save the usual dumb and desperate measures, like asking her, now, after all these years, and when she’s no longer mine, to marry me), […]
2004, Chang-rae Lee, chapter 9, in Aloft, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 244The $19.2 million home has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, and is what sources say is the result of both good co-parenting with Jen AND good boyfriending with his partner in iced coffee, Lindsay Shookus.
2018 April 11, Bobby Finger, “Ben Affleck Appears to Have Already Moved Into the Kitchen of His New $19.2 Million Home”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2018
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of boyfriend
Origin
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