theyfriend

English

Etymology

they +‎ friend, modeled after girlfriend and boyfriend.

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Noun

theyfriend (plural theyfriends)

  1. (neologism) A non-binary partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
    Synonyms: enbyfriend, joyfriend
    • 2019 May 28, Talia Hibbert, The Roomate Risk‎, Tantor Media, Incorporated, →ISBN:
      She'd never had a boyfriend or girlfriend or theyfriend, not in her entire life.
    • 2021 October 21, Skeeter, “Janithor is my non-binary theyfriend”, in alt.slack‎ (Usenet):
    • 2022 January 18, Laura Silverman, Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between‎, Penguin Young Readers Group, →ISBN, page 196:
      'Do you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend or a theyfriend?'
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:theyfriend.

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