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boys' love en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from boys + love.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters; yaoi

Synonyms

BL

Translations (2)

cmn 少年愛 /少年爱 (Translations) · cmn 耽美 (Translations)