boyism
nounEtymology From boy + -ism.
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
- Related terms
- good old boyism