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schoolboyishly

schoolboyishly adverb: in a schoolboyish way.

Adverb

schoolboyishly (comparative more schoolboyishly, superlative most schoolboyishly)

  1. In a schoolboyish way.
    • Hari Singh laughed schoolboyishly through the nest of beard.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 109

Forms of schoolboyishly

comparativemore schoolboyishly
superlativemost schoolboyishly

Origin of schoolboyishly

From schoolboyish + -ly.

Questions about schoolboyishly

What does schoolboyishly mean?
Schoolboyishly means in a schoolboyish way.
What part of speech is schoolboyishly?
Schoolboyishly is an adverb.

Words near schoolboyishly in the dictionary

  1. schoolboy knot
  2. schoolboy knots
  3. schoolboydom
  4. schoolboyhood
  5. schoolboyish
  6. schoolboyishly
  7. schoolboyishness
  8. schoolboyism
  9. schoolboys
  10. schoolbus
  11. schoolbuses

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