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Boychick
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Boychick, variant: Boychik \boi-'chik or boi-'shik\. Noun: American Yiddish, from English boy + Yiddish -tshik, a diminutive suffix. Meaning: young boy, boyish, kiddo, handsome. Leo Rosten includes boychick in his The Joys of Yiddish, which is more properly referred to as Yinglish. Boychick is always used a complement. Such as, "I have three sons but only one boychick!" Boychick is a popular term used by American Jews and often appears on t-shirts, coffee mugs...ect. Boyo is a similar term used by the Irish. In Popular Culture *"Boychick", a 2002 movie by Glenn Gaylord *"Boychick", a 1971 novel by Leo Skir *"The Boychick Affair", a 2008 Los Angeles stage production. * partial title of numerous written articles A handsome gentile boy who converts to Judaism is also called a Gerchick. See Also
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