boho

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?”)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊhəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊhoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊhəʊ

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.

   • 2021 April 11, Lauren McGuire, “Hot Tub-tation” (3:29 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 17, spoken by Betty Hart (Maya Rudolph):

     “Ooh, look at that Martina McBride boho peasant blouse. 40% off. I'm about to put you 100% on.”

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

• Boho-chic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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boho

1. (stative) to be tired

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