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Definition of Boyishness
1. Noun. Being characteristic of a boy.
Definition of Boyishness
1. n. The manners or behavior of a boy.
Definition of Boyishness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being boyish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boyishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boyishness
Literary usage of Boyishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America's Coming-of-age by Van Wyck Brooks (1915)
"It is in his social criticism that he betrays the incurable boyishness, the
superannuated boyishness of the Emersonian tradition in its main line of ..."
2. The Bookman (1900)
"He is, indeed, the grown-up boy of American politics; and if his boyishness
accounts for much of his undoubted popularity, it accounts also for much in his ..."
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