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boyhood|ˈbɔɪhʊd|
[f. boy n.1 + -hood.
(Johnson has only the quotation from Swift, and says ‘This is perhaps an arbitrary word’. It occurs in no edition of Bailey.) Cf. boyism 3.]
a. The state of being a boy; the time of life during which one is a boy; also fig. the early period of anything.
b. Boys taken collectively.
c. Boyish feeling; light-heartedness.
a1745Swift (J.), Look at him, in his boyhood, through the magnifying end of a perspective, and in his manhood, through the other. 1802–25Syd. Smith Ess. 117 (Beeton's ed.) All the bloody boyhood of the Bog of Allen. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. ii. 8 Princes are unfortunate enough to be flattered even in their boyhood. 1829Hood Eug. Aram iii, Turning to mirth all things of earth As only boyhood can. 1842Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Q. Guinevere 19 In the boyhood of the year. 1886Mrs. A. Hunt That other Pers. I. 206 The turbulent mass of..gesticulating boyhood. |