| 单词 | boyish |
| 释义 | boyish (once / 763 pages) adj If you're boyish, you resemble or act like a young boy. Your uncle's boyish features might keep him charming and attractive even as he grows older. When you describe someone as having boyish charm, it means that person — often an adult man — has kept some youth or sweetness as he's matured. A boyish smile might be full of humor and mischief. The earliest meaning of boyish, in the 1540s, was simply "pertaining to boys," and it grew to mean "childishly silly," before gaining its current meaning. WORD FAMILYboyish: boyishly, boyishness+/boy: boyhood, boyish, boylike, boys/boyhood: boyhoods USAGE EXAMPLESHe was tall, with piercing blue eyes and a boyish charisma that outlasted his initial awkwardness. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) Yet Mr. Hofer, 45, also flashes a boyish grin and can hardly help but betray an extra air of confidence these days. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) Lowe has a boyish indifference to danger, and colleagues must constantly dissuade him from, say, driving into Libya with a scanner in the trunk. The New Yorker(Nov 20, 2016) adj befitting or characteristic of a young boy a boyish grin Syn boylike, schoolboyish immature, young (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth |
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