t-boy

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t-boy¹

noun t-boys · tboy

  1. informal A trans man. You don't see flat T-girls. T-boys shouldn't have a v-shaped crotch.

T-Boy²

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From Cajun French petit (“little”) (dialectally pronounced /ti/) + English boy.

proper noun

  1. Louisiana, especially A nickname for a boy. “We're just waiting on T Boy,” Bill said. We all knew that T Boy had the furthest to come to go frogging. He and his parents lived way past where the road ended. We all considered him and his family pure swamp people.

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@misc{t_boy_2026,
  title = {t-boy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/t-boy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}