(n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
(v. t.) To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(2) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(3) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(4) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(5) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(6) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
(7) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(8) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(9) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(10) With baseline measures and body mass index controlled for, analyses of covariance showed that adults had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did children; men had greater blood pressure responses to all stressors than did women; and high school boys had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did high school girls.
(11) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(12) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
(13) In girls and boys, the mean concentration of both gonadotropins increased with advancing puberty.
(14) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(15) I’ve been at United ever since I was a little boy and I had a great time there.
(16) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(17) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(18) Boys performed better than girls, and older children were more accurate than younger ones.
(19) The crus has been elongation 8 cm by Ilizarov method in 9 years old boy and 5 cm elongation of the tibia has been achieved with the use of Bastiani method in 8 years old girl.
(20) The boy also said Waqar would call him names including “paedo”.
Boyish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if Salazar looks boyish then it's because he is in fact a boy.
(2) The effect is of someone with a boyish energy who has had too many Cokes, but even on bad days, says Fox, "I don't care.
(3) She likes the boyishness and the immaturity of the guy she fell in love with, but that's balanced against this higher need to have him get his shit together and be a man.
(4) Alexander Stubb, Finland’s boyish-looking conservative prime minister, agreed on the need to keep things calm.
(5) You're innocently browsing an apparently useful website and see a link to something else that might be of interest, but when you click through to that destination you instead find yourself confronted with Astley's boyish smile , his manly croon, his awkward 1987 dance-moves.
(6) Fox is still as boyishly handsome as he was when he appeared in Back to the Future at the age of 24, and the voice is the same one that once begged Doc Brown to return him to 1985.
(7) What never disappeared was the almost boyish enthusiasm he brought to writing and making music Yet every so often Maxwell Davies could still produce a work that was startlingly effective, and which in its own way carried as much impact as any of the earlier scores.
(8) I couldn’t even get close.” Sandi Toksvig The presenter who quit Radio 4’s The News Quiz to launch her own political party might be an offbeat choice – but she could help balance Evans’ boyishness.
(9) He's wonderfully boyish and can be charming – when he flashes a smile, everybody melts.
(10) People described me as a boyish girl – rather shy, but I didn't show it.
(11) It made a most enduring impression upon my boyish mind which was my very first impulse to choosing chorea as my virgin contribution to medical lore.
(12) But it seemed companies didn't take too kindly to a gay Indian girl with a penchant for dressing boyishly.
(13) In Trump, we have a major presidential candidate who doesn’t just parse words, conceal facts, or shade the truth, but constantly tells big blatant lies .” In person Mikkelson, 56, is boyish, with a toothy smile and shy demeanour.
(14) When Lowther asked what was the matter, the answer was: "It's boyish."
(15) Marty has an apple-cheeked girlfriend (Claudia Wells), is a boyishly good-looking dude, but he comes from duff stock: mum Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is an alcoholic and dad George (Crispin Glover) is a weed, perpetually bullied by his former high-school tormentor, now boss, Biff (Thomas Wilson).
(16) If I had some other job, I could spend time with my children, relax, go to the market.” It is mid-afternoon and Singh, with a round face and boyish sweetness in his eyes, has not been home since last night; grey stubble covers his cheeks and chin.
(17) At 43, he still looked boyish, with his questioning eyes, a thatch of hair and diffident mumbles.
(18) What never disappeared, either, was the almost boyish enthusiasm Maxwell Davies brought to writing and making music, and to his involvement with those performing it.
(19) Both men and women thought him good-looking, and he retained a boyish air.
(20) Such foes were baffled by the boyish camaraderie of old Fleet Street, not to say its tradition of ecumenical friendship: before he had a London flat of his own, Waugh used to stay with his great friend Paul Foot.