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boyish, a.|ˈbɔɪɪʃ|
[f. boy n.1 + -ish1.]
1. Of or pertaining to boys or boyhood.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke iii. (R.) Big laddes..grou quite awaye from the pureness of babehood to boyish wantonnesse. 1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 132 Euen from my boyish daies. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. lxxv, From the first hours of our boyish pastimes. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vi. 164 In the bloom of manly or of boyish strength.
2. Boy-like; puerile.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 60 This is such a boyish sophisme as I am ashamed to aunswere it. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 143 The beginning of it is Boyish, but of this part..I should hardly now be much ashamed. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 195 Boyish vanities, and no part of the real business of life. |