boyism
English
Etymology
boy + -ism
Noun
boyism (countable and uncountable, plural boyisms)
- (obsolete) boyhood
- (obsolete) The nature of a boy; childishness.
- a. 1700, John Dryden, Preface to Poems on Various Occasions
- He had complain'd he was farther off from Possession, by being so near, and a thousand such Boyisms, which Chaucer rejected as below the Dignity of the Subject
- a. 1700, John Dryden, Preface to Poems on Various Occasions
References
boyism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913