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Meaning of boyism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. boyhood
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. The nature of a boy; childishness.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“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”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

boyitis boykin Boykin Spaniel boykind boykisser Boyko

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