boyism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

boy +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

boyism (countable and uncountable, plural boyisms)

  1. (obsolete) boyhood
  2. (obsolete) The nature of a boy; childishness.
    • 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

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

“boyism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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