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noun

a frequent or favorite male companion; beau.

a male friend.

a male lover.

adjective

pertaining to or noting clothing and accessories for women that are inspired by men's fashions: roomy and comfortable boyfriend jeans; an oversize boyfriend watch.

Origin:
1895–1900; boy + friend

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boyfriend (ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd)

—n
	a male friend with whom a person is romantically or sexually involved; sweetheart or lover

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boyfriend

"woman's paramour," 1909, from boy + friend.

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"They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few amusements, because he has not so many public holidays, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amusements of hunting, fishing, and the like have not yet given place to the former. Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage. No wonder, then, that he did not oftener stay to play on the common. But already a change is taking place, owing, not to an increased humanity, but to an increased scarcity of game, for perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted, not excepting the Humane Society."

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