Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a boy; boyishness.
- noun Something characteristic of a boy; puerility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Boyhood.
- noun The nature of a boy; childishness.
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- noun obsolete
boyhood - noun obsolete The nature of a
boy ;childishness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It also will get rid of a whole lot of the "good ole boyism" that has at best plagued NC citizens with an inconsistent permit process.
Should Felons Hunt? 2009
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It also will get rid of a whole lot of the "good ole boyism" that has at best plagued NC citizens with an inconsistent permit process.
Should Felons Hunt? 2009
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Obviously he is a bit out of the loop but the perspective was refreshing, he doesn't buy into the FB fan-boyism which I have to say is quite disconcerning, especially from people I thought knew better.
Creating Customized Social Networking Applications For Business - Publishing 2.0 2008
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As someone who occasionally represent clients in divorce and custody matters in a neighboring county whose reputation for corruption and old-boyism is well-deserved, this kind of abuse of power in child custody matters probably pisses me off more than it might others.
"Troopergate" requires a "disambiguation" page in Wikipedia. Ann Althouse 2008
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Advances in the ranks are obstructed by "glass ceilings," where networking and old-boyism still speed the advance of mediocre whites.
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Some followed strange gods in the direction of Drummond Street, and others slunk back to meek good-boyism at the feet of the Professors.
Lay Morals 2005
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What we have in Providence, it would seem, is the New Global World Order's version of France's famous Polytechnique, a single, quasi-academic locus from which a ruling class can issue forth year after year and perpetuate itself, largely through old-boyism (in its postmodern, gender-neutral version).
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It had in it the element of tom-boyism upon which Miss Bucher looked with alarm.
Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life Adele W. [Illustrator] Jones 1895
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Some followed strange gods in the direction of Drummond Street, and others slunk back to meek good-boyism at the feet of the Professors.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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For the first five years of his life, with his curly locks and his fancy dress, he was the pride of his own and the envy of all neighbouring establishments; but, in process of time, the spirit of boyism began to develop itself, and Vivian not only would brush his hair straight and rebel against his nurse, but actually insisted upon being -- breeched!
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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