boyfriending

From boyfriend +‎ -ing.

boyfriending (uncountable)

1. (informal, often humorous, uncommon) The act of being a boyfriend.

   Coordinate term: girlfriending

   • 1999 August 27, Tammy, “Yet ANOTHER Baa Baa poll!”, in rec.music.artists.stevie-nicks (Usenet):

     You "listen" to her? By choice?? And it didn't kill you, but actually made you both happy? What a concept! Can you add that to your curriculum...."Boyfriending 101"? ;-)

   • 2004, Chang-rae Lee, chapter 9, in Aloft, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 244:

     And the now insistent implication—something Theresa always seems to evoke for me—is not that Rita might view my years of boyfriending in a similar metaphorical light (which she no doubt does), or that there might be anything I can do to reform her perspective (save the usual dumb and desperate measures, like asking her, now, after all these years, and when she’s no longer mine, to marry me), […]

   • 2018 April 11, Bobby Finger, “Ben Affleck Appears to Have Already Moved Into the Kitchen of His New $19.2 Million Home”, in Jezebel‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 April 2018:

     The $19.2 million home has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, and is what sources say is the result of both good co-parenting with Jen AND good boyfriending with his partner in iced coffee, Lindsay Shookus.

boyfriending

1. present participle and gerund of boyfriend