boho

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See also: Boho and bohó

English

Etymology

From bohemian. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “How new is this word?”)

Pronunciation

Noun

boho (countable and uncountable, plural bohos)

  1. (informal) A bohemian.
    • 1988 April 1, Roger Moore, “Silos”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      After all, […] the last thing this country needs is a mannered bunch of Manhattan bohos who use textured harmonics and jingly guitars to create a carpetbagger's vision of the heartland.
  2. A style of female fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, popular in the mid-2000s.
    • 2007 June 21, Ruth La Ferla, “Another Summer of Love”, in New York Times‎:
      In pockets of downtown Manhattan and in cities as far-flung as Miami and Los Angeles, young women in the vanguard are setting aside their trapeze and baby-doll dresses — and as often as not, their drainpipe jeans — in favor of a breezier, more audaciously colorful interpretation of boho chic.

Adjective

boho (comparative more boho, superlative most boho)

  1. (informal) Bohemian.
    • 1975, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing Of Summer Lawns:
      Down in the cellar in the Boho zone / I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well / Just another hard time band / With Negro affectations

Further reading

Anagrams

Ternate

Pronunciation

Verb

boho

  1. (stative) to be tired

Conjugation

Conjugation of boho
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st toboho foboho miboho
2nd noboho niboho
3rd Masculine oboho iboho, yoboho†
Feminine moboho
Neuter iboho
† - archaic

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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