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Definition of Boylike
1. Adverb. Like a boy. "He smiled boyishly at his fiancee"
2. Adjective. Befitting or characteristic of a young boy. "Schoolboyish pranks"
Definition of Boylike
1. Adjective. Resembling a boy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boylike
Literary usage of Boylike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"boylike, if an acquaintance had a scheme, Kim was quite ready with one of hia
own; and, boy like, he had really thought for as much as twenty minutes at a ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"boylike, if an acquaintance had a scheme, Kim was quite ready with one of his
own; and, boylike, he had really thought for as much as twenty minutes at a ..."
3. Outlines of Composition and Rhetoric by John Franklin Genung, Charles Lane Hanson (1915)
"In impulse I am boylike, but in reflection a man; and then I condemn the boylike
action and make a new resolve. There is a period which marks the transition ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1882)
"... SALTILLO BOYS surpasses them in its narrative of bright, manly, and yet
thoroughly boylike life. The story is one of real; Ufe ; the characters all have ..."
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