What does boyism mean?
Boyism means (obsolete) boyhood.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) boyhood.
a. 1700, John Dryden, Preface to Poems on Various Occasions He had complain'd he was farther off from Possession, by being so near, and a thousand such Boyisms, which Chaucer rejected as below the Dignity of the Subject
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Boyism means (obsolete) boyhood.
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a. 1700, John Dryden, Preface to Poems on Various Occasions He had complain'd he was farther off from Possession, by being so near, and a thousand such Boyisms, which Chaucer rejected as below the Dignity of the Subject
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