femboy

English

Etymology

From fem- +‎ boy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛmbɔɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛmboɪ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈfemboɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmbɔɪ
• Hyphenation: fem‧boy

Noun

femboy (plural femboys)

1. A (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine aesthetic.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:effeminate man

   • 2015, Charles Cadman, Phallus Aforethought:

     A Thai boy is allowed to be effeminate. Such boys are accepted in school and in their villages, and their effeminacy is simply considered to be a part of their character. “In such an open society it could well be the case that these femboys feel more able to experiment and to develop their feminine side. If they proceed to the level of regularly dressing as a girl, taking female hormones and having breast implants, then they will have moved into the realm of becoming fully fledged ladyboys. […]

   • 2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:

     For example, “queer” would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the “opposite sex,” sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.

Related terms

• femboi
• femby
• tomboy

 

Descendants

• → French: femboy
• → German: Femboy
• → Portuguese: femboy
• → Russian: фембо́й (fembój)
• → Spanish: femboy
• → Ukrainian: фембо́й (fembój)

Translations

male with feminine aesthetics

• Arabic: وَلَد مُخَنَّث m (walad muḵannaṯ)
• Basque: emagizona sg
• Belarusian: фембо́й m (fjembój)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 娘炮 (zh) (niángpào), 男娘 (zh) (nánniáng), 偽娘／伪娘 (zh) (wěiniáng)

• Czech: femboy m
• Esperanto: femknabo
• Finnish: tyttöilijä, tytyilijä (fi)
• French: femboy (fr) m
• German: Femboy m
• Hungarian: legány
• Japanese: 男の娘 (otokonoko)
• Korean: 펨보이 (pemboi)
• Polish: kobiecy chłopak m, femboy m
• Portuguese: femboy m
• Russian: фембо́й (ru) m (fembój)
• Sicilian: jarrusu (scn) m, fimmineḍḍa f
• Spanish: femboy (es) m
• Ukrainian: фембо́й m (fembój)

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English femboy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛm.bɔj/

Noun

femboy m (plural femboys)

1. femboy (young effeminate man)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English femboy.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fẽˈbɔj/ [fẽˈbɔɪ̯]

• Rhymes: -ɔj
• Hyphenation: fem‧boy

Noun

femboy m (plural femboys)

1. femboy (young effeminate man)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English femboy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /femˈboi/ [fẽmˈboi̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification: fem‧boy

Noun

femboy m (plural femboys)

1. femboy (young effeminate man)

Usage notes

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.