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boyisms

boyisms is the plural of boyism.

Meaning of boyism

Noun

boyism (countable and uncountable, plural boyisms)

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

Questions about boyisms

What is boyisms the plural of?
Boyisms is the plural of boyism.

Words near boyisms in the dictionary

  1. boyish
  2. boyishly
  3. boyishness
  4. boyishnesses
  5. boyism
  6. boyisms
  7. boyitis
  8. boykie
  9. boykies
  10. boykin
  11. Boykin Spaniel

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