boyness
nounEtymology From boy + -ness.
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The state or condition of being a boy; masculinity, boyhood.
- What is it to be a boy in the scouts? What resources of communication give expression to boyness?1988, Donal A Carbaugh, Talking American: Cultural Discourses on Donahue, page 9:
- Evelyn Hoskins distils boyness from wide-eyed wonder and swaggering assurance.2014 July 27, Clare Brennan, The Observer:
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- I wished for boyness because the boys did so many things I wanted to do and was excluded from doing because I was a girl.2018 January 2, Emily Willingham, “The non-binary brain”, in Aeon:
- Related terms
- good old boyness