boy-girl
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.96 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who has characteristics of both boys and girls; someone young and androgynous.
adj
Characterized by stereotypical romantic relationships between young people.
Example Sentences
- "Baudelaire is uninterested in boy-girls or transvestites. His androgynes must be voluptuously female in body contour."
- "And then one reviewer said that it was your average boy-girl song and the writer didn't understand why people were making such a big deal out of it."
- "If the coffeehouse beatnik scene was too limited in its appeal to become a significant cinematic attraction (not enough boy-girl romantic action), it still gave rise to a number of film scenarios […]"