Boyism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    boyhood countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    The nature of a boy; childishness. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "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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"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"

Etymology

From boy + -ism.

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