boyish
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbɔɪ.ɪʃ/
boyish
- Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
- 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom Chapter 1
- He is never expected to act like a nice little gentleman, for he is only a rude little slave. Thus, freed from all restraint, the slave-boy can be, in his life and conduct, a genuine boy, doing whatever his boyish nature suggests.
- People disliked his boyish and juvenile behaviour.
- Her boyish figure belied her femininity.
- 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom Chapter 1
- French: garçon
- German: jungenhaft, knabenhaft
- Portuguese: pueril, infantil
- Russian: мальчи́шеский
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