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boy friend en · NOUN
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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:"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 Why are you so out of date, Bessie?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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