ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Boyism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Boyism is a noun meaning (obsolete) boyhood.

Meaning

(obsolete) boyhood.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete) The nature of a boy; childishness.

Example Sentences

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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