noun
Meaning 1
boyhood
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
boyism
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noun
Meaning 2
The nature of a boy; childishness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Examples
- a. 1700, John Dryden, Preface to Poems on Various Occasions He had complain'd he was farther off from Possession, by being so near, and a thousand such Boyisms, which Chaucer rejected as below the Dignity of the Subject
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History
Etymology
From boy + -ism.