boyish
Syllables: boy·ish/ˈbɔɪ.ɪʃ/
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British/ˈbojɪʃ/
boyish adjective: like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
Adjective
boyish (comparative more boyish, superlative most boyish)
- Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
- People disliked his boyish and juvenile behaviour.
- Her boyish figure belied her femininity.
- Relating to a boy, or occurring in boyhood.
- For Memnon […] fought hand to hand with his overmatch, and met his boyish and most dolorous death beneath the walls of Troy.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
boyish meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
boyish in Tamil
- சிறுபிள்ளைத்தனமான, சிறு பிள்ளைத் தனமான
boyish in Malayalam
- childlike, youthful, young
- ബാലസഹജമായ, യൗവനസഹജമായ, കുട്ടിത്തമുള്ള, ചെറുപ്പം തോന്നിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, തരുണ, കുമാര
boyish in Kannada
- ಹುಡುಗು
Examples of boyish in a sentence
- Thus, freed from all restraint, the slave-boy can be, in his life and conduct, a genuine boy, doing whatever his boyish nature suggests; […]1855, Frederick Douglass, “The Author’s Childhood”, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan...
- There were no signs and no one quite knew how to navigate the museum, including, as it was Fleet Week, gaggles of boyish sailors all in their summer whites.2014 June 7, Vicki Woods, “Sadness, and a surprise, at the 9/11 Museum: The memorial at Ground Zero is filled with objects that shock the...
Forms of boyish
| comparative | more boyish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most boyish |
Origin of boyish
From boy + -ish.
Words formed from boyish
Questions about boyish
- What does boyish mean?
- Boyish means like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
- What is boyish in Tamil?
- Boyish in Tamil is சிறுபிள்ளைத்தனமான, சிறு பிள்ளைத் தனமான. See Boyish meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use boyish in a sentence?
- Thus, freed from all restraint, the slave-boy can be, in his life and conduct, a genuine boy, doing whatever his boyish nature suggests; […]
- What part of speech is boyish?
- Boyish is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce boyish?
- Boyish is pronounced /ˈbɔɪ.ɪʃ/.
Words near boyish in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: boyish (page history and authors); boyish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); boyish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); boyish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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