theyfriend
English
Etymology
they + friend, modeled after girlfriend and boyfriend.
Noun
theyfriend (plural theyfriends)
- (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.
Coordinate terms
- boyfriend
- girlfriend