boymode

The state of presenting as male, regardless of one's actual gender identity, especially while undergoing feminizing HRT.

Noun

  1. The state of presenting as male, regardless of one's actual gender identity, especially while undergoing feminizing HRT.
    • Coordinate term: girlmode
    • I was out in semi-boymode tonight and some drunk Scottish guy walked up to me in the street and said "Aye pal, you tryna become a lassie?" I was just like "Umm I guess" super embarrassedly, and he said "ah well good on...
    • ...just been told I look better in boymode... - 2021 September 1, @babethebashful, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:

Origin

From boy + mode.

Verb

  1. To present as male, regardless of one's actual gender identity, especially while undergoing feminizing HRT.
    • Coordinate term: girlmode
    • We are 6 months away from cis girls posting that they're boymoding for not putting on makeup to go to the corner store - 2022 February 20, @SmoothShinyShae, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:
    • you boymode because you feel insecure about your appearance, she boymodes to hijack a boeing 727-100 airplane, demand $200,000 in negotiable american currency and jump out the aft staircase, you are not the same - 2022...

Forms

boymodes boymoding boymoded

Derived

boymoder