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[syn: boyish, boylike, schoolboyish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Boyish \Boy"ish\, a.
Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a
boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
[1913 Webster]
A boyish, odd conceit. --Baillie.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
boyish
adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a young boy; "a boyish
grin"; "schoolboyish pranks" [syn: boyish, boylike,
schoolboyish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "boyish":
adolescent, airy, attenuate, attenuated, beardless, boylike,
calflike, childish, childlike, coltish, delicate, diaphanous,
diluted, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail,
gauzy, girlish, girllike, gossamer, gracile, immature,
insubstantial, juvenile, kiddish, lacy, light, maiden, maidenly,
misty, papery, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, rare,
rarefied, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish,
slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin,
thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague,
wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy,
wiredrawn, wispy, young, youthful