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UK
/bˈɔɪɪʃ/
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[ US /ˈbɔɪɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɔɪɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
befitting or characteristic of a young boy
schoolboyish pranks
a boyish grin
How To Use boyish In A Sentence
- This twenty-something Wood-elf is not what you would call devilishly handsome yet is never-the-less attractive in a somewhat boyish way. Undefined
- But, despite my boyish good looks, I'm probably unlikely to be engaged for either role.
- He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. Kiss & Break Up
- His face in repose possessed a boyish charm that disarmed her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
- A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood girls.
- March 11, 2006, 5: 04 pm credit counseling says: credit counseling scraping accruing, Habib! boyish: possessional contrasting The Volokh Conspiracy » WASHINGTON TIMES AND WINE WARS:
- A dapper man with an aristocratic air, he was boyishly handsome, compulsively social and intensely creative.
- Rigg leapt to his feet and let out a boyish, privick, unprincely hoot of happiness. Pathfinder
- Currado, began to consider Giannotto and some remembrance of the boyish lineaments of her son's countenance being by occult virtue awakened in her, without awaiting farther explanation, she ran, open-armed, to cast herself upon his neck, nor did overabounding emotion and maternal joy suffer her to say a word; nay, they so locked up all her senses that she fell into her son's arms, as if dead. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- He's got a thatch of floppy brown hair that gives him a certain boyish look, but he's gray at the temples, and there are little fans of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.