Boyish definition

boiĭsh
Characteristic of or befitting a boy.

Boyish charm.

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Of, like, or fit for a boy or boys.
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People disliked his boyish and juvenile behaviour.

Her boyish figure belied her femininity.

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Origin of boyish

  • boy +‎ -ish

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Boyish Sentence Examples

  • He records how it was burnt into him by pictures which filled his boyish imagination.

  • Something in his innocent boyish smile and the way he moved - so deliberate, even graceful.

  • The illiterate brigand, whose boyish ambition had not looked beyond the recovery of his father's beylick, was now established as one of the most powerful viziers under the Ottoman government.

  • An almost boyish enthusiasm for some new discovery leaves what is being said in the poem unfocused.

  • He's simply too boyish to conjure any sort of heroic authority.

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