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boyism|ˈbɔɪɪz(ə)m|
[f. boy n.1+ -ism.]
1. The characteristic nature of a boy.
a1790T. Warton in Sir E. Brydges Milton (1853) 566 Perhaps the real boyism of the brother..is to be taken into the account. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey i. i. (1878) 1 The spirit of boyism began to develop itself.
2. A boyish characteristic or trait; a puerility.
1700Dryden Fables Pref. (Globe) 498 A thousand such boyisms which Chaucer rejected. 1717Garth Ovid's Met. Pref., These are some of our poet's boyisms.
†3. Boyhood. Obs.
1810Rev. R. Polwhele Poet. Register 48 The progress of Genius in boyism and in youth. |