boyhoodn.

Brit.

/ˈbɔɪhʊd/, U.S.

/ˈbɔɪˌ(h)ʊd/

Forms: see boy n.¹ and int. and -hood suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: boy n.¹, -hood suffix.

Etymology: < boy n.¹ + -hood suffix.

rare before late 18th cent.

1. The state of being a boy; the time of life during which one is a boy. Also figurative: the early period of something.

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the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] > boyhood

knighthoodc893

boyhood?1577

boyery1579

lad-age1606

manchildhooda1618

boyage1625

boyism1810

laddism1843

ladhood1883

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > early stage of existence or the world

prime timea1556

boyhood?1577

youth1604

pupillage1606

youthhood1828

foretime1853

earlies1927

the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > light-heartedness

lightnessa1350

light-heartedness1603

jauntiness1712

gaieté de cœur1728

sans souci1781

boyhood1829

sans-souci-ism1837

breeziness1885

gaydom1922

carefreeness1924

viscerotonia1980

happy-go-luckiness2008

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 22 All the life (to be ydle) in thy childehoode, in thy boyehoode, in thy youth, in thy age.

1728 J. Swift in Intelligencer ix. 89 If you should look at him in his Boy-hood thro' the magnifying End of a Perspective, and in his Manhood through the other, it would be impossible to spy any Difference.

1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xiv. 539 It being but an awkward thing to a man, after he's past boyhood, having no home of his own.

1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 109 Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only boyhood can.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Queen Guinevere in Poems (new ed.) II. 207 In the boyhood of the year.

1885 Cent. Mag. July 396/1 The rustic colonists were accustomed from boyhood to make war on the creatures of the forest by cunning, courage, and marksmanship.

1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. i. 27 Nobody who remembers boyhood needs to be told what it might be to a boy to enter like Peter Pan under a roof of the roots of all the trees.

1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) x. 196 From his earliest boyhood, he was absolutely fearless, but was squeamish and wary of ‘natural history’, could not make himself touch wriggly things.

2004 New Yorker 16 Feb. 190/2 The mouth-wateringly specific German pastries may owe something to Abish's Viennese boyhood.

2. Boys considered collectively. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] > boys collectively

blush1620

boy-kind1784

boyhood1886

1820 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. 34 326 All the bloody boyhood of the Bog of Allen.

1886 Mrs. A. Hunt That other Person I. 206 The turbulent mass of..gesticulating boyhood.

1926 R. Love Rise & Fall of Jesse James (1990) iii. 29 Early experiences and impressions different from those of the vast mass of boyhood in other sections of the United States.

1944 P. Boardman Patrick Geddes i. 3 On the crest of this wave of boyhood was a slender lad of ten who ran in the middle of the street to avoid his slower moving comrades.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	boyhood
释义	boyhoodn. Brit. /ˈbɔɪhʊd/, U.S. /ˈbɔɪˌ(h)ʊd/ Forms: see boy n.¹ and int. and -hood suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: boy n.¹, -hood suffix. Etymology: < boy n.¹ + -hood suffix. rare before late 18th cent. 1. The state of being a boy; the time of life during which one is a boy. Also figurative: the early period of something. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] > boyhood knighthoodc893 boyhood?1577 boyery1579 lad-age1606 manchildhooda1618 boyage1625 boyism1810 laddism1843 ladhood1883 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > early stage of existence or the world prime timea1556 boyhood?1577 youth1604 pupillage1606 youthhood1828 foretime1853 earlies1927 the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > light-heartedness lightnessa1350 light-heartedness1603 jauntiness1712 gaieté de cœur1728 sans souci1781 boyhood1829 sans-souci-ism1837 breeziness1885 gaydom1922 carefreeness1924 viscerotonia1980 happy-go-luckiness2008 ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 22 All the life (to be ydle) in thy childehoode, in thy boyehoode, in thy youth, in thy age. 1728 J. Swift in Intelligencer ix. 89 If you should look at him in his Boy-hood thro' the magnifying End of a Perspective, and in his Manhood through the other, it would be impossible to spy any Difference. 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xiv. 539 It being but an awkward thing to a man, after he's past boyhood, having no home of his own. 1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 109 Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only boyhood can. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Queen Guinevere in Poems (new ed.) II. 207 In the boyhood of the year. 1885 Cent. Mag. July 396/1 The rustic colonists were accustomed from boyhood to make war on the creatures of the forest by cunning, courage, and marksmanship. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. i. 27 Nobody who remembers boyhood needs to be told what it might be to a boy to enter like Peter Pan under a roof of the roots of all the trees. 1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) x. 196 From his earliest boyhood, he was absolutely fearless, but was squeamish and wary of ‘natural history’, could not make himself touch wriggly things. 2004 New Yorker 16 Feb. 190/2 The mouth-wateringly specific German pastries may owe something to Abish's Viennese boyhood. 2. Boys considered collectively. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] > boys collectively blush1620 boy-kind1784 boyhood1886 1820 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. 34 326 All the bloody boyhood of the Bog of Allen. 1886 Mrs. A. Hunt That other Person I. 206 The turbulent mass of..gesticulating boyhood. 1926 R. Love Rise & Fall of Jesse James (1990) iii. 29 Early experiences and impressions different from those of the vast mass of boyhood in other sections of the United States. 1944 P. Boardman Patrick Geddes i. 3 On the crest of this wave of boyhood was a slender lad of ten who ran in the middle of the street to avoid his slower moving comrades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1577
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