"brotherboy" meaning in English

See brotherboy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: brotherboys [plural]
Etymology: brother + boy Etymology templates: {{compound|en|brother|boy}} brother + boy Head templates: {{en-noun}} brotherboy (plural brotherboys)
  1. (Australian Aboriginal) A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans men. Categories (topical): Gender, Male people, Transgender Coordinate_terms: sistergirl
    Sense id: en-brotherboy-en-noun-SNKO7Dpb Categories (other): Australian Aboriginal English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for brotherboy meaning in English (3.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "brother",
        "3": "boy"
      },
      "expansion": "brother + boy",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "brother + boy",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brotherboys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brotherboy (plural brotherboys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian Aboriginal English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gender",
          "orig": "en:Gender",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Male people",
          "orig": "en:Male people",
          "parents": [
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Transgender",
          "orig": "en:Transgender",
          "parents": [
            "Gender",
            "LGBT",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Sexuality",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Sex",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Human",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "sistergirl"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Stephen Kerry, Trans Dilemmas: Living in Australia’s Remote Areas and in Aboriginal Communities, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Senator McCarthy's plea to 'stay strong' resonates because all too often sistergirls and brotherboys suffer, not only from verbal harassment and ostracism, but also violence and sexual abuse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Sonja J. Ellis, Damien W. Riggs, Elizabeth Peel, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology: An Introduction, page 84",
          "text": "This, however, is changing in some communities, with some sistergirls and brotherboys being able to negotiate participation in men's business or women's business, allowing for greater connection to country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Corrinne Sullivan, “Indigenous Australian Sexualities Explored Through The Lens Of Sex Work”, in Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Lynda Johnston, Elizabeth Olson, Joseli Maria Silva, editors, Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, unnumbered page",
          "text": "For example, Jeremy, who identifies as a brotherboy (trans) and is bisexual, reveals: […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans men."
      ],
      "id": "en-brotherboy-en-noun-SNKO7Dpb",
      "links": [
        [
          "gender role",
          "gender role"
        ],
        [
          "Australian Aboriginal",
          "Australian Aboriginal"
        ],
        [
          "trans men",
          "trans men"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Australian Aboriginal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australian Aboriginal) A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans men."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brotherboy"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "sistergirl"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "brother",
        "3": "boy"
      },
      "expansion": "brother + boy",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "brother + boy",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brotherboys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brotherboy (plural brotherboys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian Aboriginal English",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Gender",
        "en:Male people",
        "en:Transgender"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Stephen Kerry, Trans Dilemmas: Living in Australia’s Remote Areas and in Aboriginal Communities, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Senator McCarthy's plea to 'stay strong' resonates because all too often sistergirls and brotherboys suffer, not only from verbal harassment and ostracism, but also violence and sexual abuse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Sonja J. Ellis, Damien W. Riggs, Elizabeth Peel, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology: An Introduction, page 84",
          "text": "This, however, is changing in some communities, with some sistergirls and brotherboys being able to negotiate participation in men's business or women's business, allowing for greater connection to country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Corrinne Sullivan, “Indigenous Australian Sexualities Explored Through The Lens Of Sex Work”, in Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Lynda Johnston, Elizabeth Olson, Joseli Maria Silva, editors, Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, unnumbered page",
          "text": "For example, Jeremy, who identifies as a brotherboy (trans) and is bisexual, reveals: […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans men."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gender role",
          "gender role"
        ],
        [
          "Australian Aboriginal",
          "Australian Aboriginal"
        ],
        [
          "trans men",
          "trans men"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Australian Aboriginal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australian Aboriginal) A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans men."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brotherboy"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.