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boydyke en · NOUN

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Etymology

From boy + dyke.

Meanings

1. (slang, vulgar) A lesbian with a masculine presentation and/or identification. (Chiefly used as a self-descriptor and by butch or gender-nonconforming lesbians.)
   • In 2000, several 'trannie boys, boydykes, FTMs, Lesbian Avengers and young gender-variant women' - who were not transsexual women - were evicted from the festival for their refusal to identify as 'womyn-born womyn'[…] 2011, Mimi Marinucci, Feminism is queer, page 55:
   • Thus, research designs that operationalize sexual identity in a unidimensional, fixed, limited, forced-choice manner omit most of the homoerotic youth who assume unspecified sexual identities (e.g., two-spirit, boydyke, omnisexual, trans-boi), […] 2007, Ilan H. Meyer, Mary E. Northridge, The Health of Sexual Minorities, page 40:
   • But I don't think boydykes have dibs on playing with gender: I too like the sexiness of a floating signifier. 1998, Rosamund Else-Mitchell, Naomi Flutter, Talking Up: Young Women's Take on Feminism, page 97:

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