"boy friend/ boyfriend" [WAS a new kind of "guy"]
Mark Mandel
thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 18 02:32:16 UTC 2007
On 6/15/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 1911 Winston Stokes, Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb_All Shakespeare's Tales_ (
> N.Y.: Stokes) 302: Troilus and Cressida... Achilles lay idly in his tent,
> listening to his boy friend Patroclus. [Not what you think, you filthy
> rotter!]
That aside makes a good case for a common sexual-attraction use of "boy
friend" in 1911.
m a m
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