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Definition of Schoolboyish
1. Adjective. Befitting or characteristic of a young boy. "Schoolboyish pranks"
Definition of Schoolboyish
1. Adjective. Resembling a schoolboy in behaviour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Schoolboyish
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schoolboyish
Literary usage of Schoolboyish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teaching in School and College by William Lyon Phelps (1912)
"can institution where the marks are never given or heard of except at fixed
examinations visited Yale, and told me it seemed to him very schoolboyish for ..."
2. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"... as it necessarily must do, unless you print those very schoolboyish verses I
sent you on not getting leave to come down to Bristol last Summer. ..."
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