Boyish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boyish \Boy"ish\, a.
     Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a
     boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
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           A boyish, odd conceit.                   --Baillie.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  boyish
       adj : befitting or characteristic of a young boy; "a boyish grin";
             "schoolboyish pranks" [syn: {boylike}, {schoolboyish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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