the word "boychick"

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It sounds like an insult, but it's not. Still, would you be offended if someone called you "boychick?"

― X Culture, Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

boychik?

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/going_out/film/features/film_festival/images/duddy_kravitz_203.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

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― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

is it the same as "chickguy" ?

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

It's generally used affectionately. I don't understand why it sounds offensive.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Are you Russian?

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I think it sounds offensive to some because to the uninitiated it sounds like yr being called a transvestite.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Me? No, I know it as a Yiddish word. (not that I'm an Eastern-European or Hassidic Jew, either).

x-p.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Boychick sounds to me like you're saying someone isn't a "real man"... not a transvestite, but just not a man. Like a little cute boy; an inexperienced, naive idiot ("chick" like baby bird). Like saying, "little man" or "big guy" to your little brother.

Bubula sounds offensive to me, also. For some reason it just sounds like something on par with "moron." Maybe it's close resemblence to "bumbling".

― X Culture, Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

bubula sounds like bubuska. and bubushka is a term of endearment.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Bubushka sounds like a soup made of beets.

― X Culture, Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

What about "boyo"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

"Boyo" just sounds like a weird term from an 80s English band that means roughly the same thing as "oi" or "yo" or "raise the roof it's party time!"

― X culture, Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

What about 'stout fellow'?

― moley, Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

I remember a Seinfeld episode in which Elaine entered the room and greeted Jerry and George with "Hey boyos."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I like using boyo, and no one's ever objected. Is it objectionable??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Actually, cursory googling shows that Elaine said "hey boys-o." Huh. It was in the Junior Mint episode. (Which is why I remember, because I once spent an afternoon transcribing that episode by hand. Yeah, I know. I can't answer to everything I did when I was fourteen.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Has quoting Seinfeld become a social taboo?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

"Stout fellow" definitely sounds like you're calling someone fat.

― X Culture, Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

christ jaymc, elaine doesnt even post here

― zzzzzzzz, Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Does Whit Stillman still post here? I thought he no longer had internet access from the office.
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― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

you guys are so goyische!

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i prefer "b'hoy"

― bobby bedelia (van dover), Thursday, 18 January 2007 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

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