Definition of "boylike" [boylike]

• Resembling a boy. (adjective)

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• "His name was Jimmy Darl Thigpin, and the diminutive or boylike image his name suggested, as with many southern names, was egregiously misleading."
• "Despite the knowledge of the risks, everything about him had drawn her closer-the surprise at seeing him walking toward her on the beach, his easy smile and tousled hair, the nervous, boylike gaze-and in that instant, he'd been both the man she knew and the man she didn't."
• "What I need is a boylike banshee yell launch off the rope swing."