Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
boyish .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling a
boy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective befitting or characteristic of a young boy
- adverb like a boy
Etymologies
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Examples
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His name was Jimmy Darl Thigpin, and the diminutive or boylike image his name suggested, as with many southern names, was egregiously misleading.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Despite the knowledge of the risks, everything about him had drawn her closer-the surprise at seeing him walking toward her on the beach, his easy smile and tousled hair, the nervous, boylike gaze-and in that instant, he'd been both the man she knew and the man she didn't.
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His name was Jimmy Darl Thigpin, and the diminutive or boylike image his name suggested, as with many southern names, was egregiously misleading.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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His name was Jimmy Darl Thigpin, and the diminutive or boylike image his name suggested, as with many southern names, was egregiously misleading.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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His name was Jimmy Darl Thigpin, and the diminutive or boylike image his name suggested, as with many southern names, was egregiously misleading.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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What I need is a boylike banshee yell launch off the rope swing.
If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007
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What I need is a boylike banshee yell launch off the rope swing.
If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007
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Since Mary is also described as having a boylike grace of movement, even the least jaded attention is inevitably drawn to what is apparently being disowned.
Great Scot 2004
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Since Mary is also described as having a boylike grace of movement, even the least jaded attention is inevitably drawn to what is apparently being disowned.
Great Scot 2004
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And in a culminating brainstorm that assumed, boylike, that any passing impulse could be turned into reality: “Bring Joe along with you.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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