(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.
Tomboy
Definition:
(n.) A romping girl; a hoiden.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was a gymnast first, a 'garçon manqué' as she says, a tomboy with cropped hair, awkward and angular.
(2) Why did Jessica and Holly - the dark-haired girl and the blonde, the 'tomboy' and the 'angel', the swimmer and the majorette - die that evening?
(3) Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of the sexism Page has encountered is that pretty much as soon as she came to international attention in Juno, rumours started about her sexuality, simply because, to quote one well-known accusatory blogpost in 2008, "she certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy and if you Google 'Ellen Page boyfriend' , not a whole lot comes up."
(4) Lawrence, according to Foster, is variously "ballsy", "a spritely tomboy", "a hoot" and "a gem with a killer stare".
(5) Hodder will publish 10 contemporary Famous Five books in August, starting with Five on a Treasure Island, originally published in 1942, in which siblings Julian, Dick and Anne first spend the summer with their tomboy cousin George (Georgina, by rights) and her dog Timmy, and hunt for treasure on Kirrin island.
(6) She now appears slimmer, older and somewhat sexualised, in comparison to the teenage tomboy from last year's Oscar-winning animation.
(7) As a child growing up in the 1970s I was an athletic tomboy and, aged 10, I was given a nosebleed by a boy in the school playground.
(8) "When I was a kid, my parents were called in by the headmaster at my school because I was such a tomboy and spent so much of my time playing with the boys that he was afraid that, as we all reached puberty, I would be abandoned.
(9) She was, instead, a confident tomboy, who, she admitted later, yearned to cut her hair short.
(10) Klein says she grew up as a tomboy that turned into a tom man.
(11) In all fairness, no one can speak of transsexual or transvestite children as has been done in the past, but only of feminine or effeminate boys and tomboy girls.
(12) She's tough without being a tomboy and attractive without being a sophomore although she has elements of both.
(13) She gives a history of remarkable tomboyism during her latency years and increasing withdrawal from peers and family during early adolescence.
(14) Six of these items (playing with boys' toys, playing with girls' toys, dressing up in men's clothes, dressing up in women's clothes, paying attention to women's fashions, and being considered a tomboy) revealed statistically significant differences between the heterosexual and homosexual females.
(15) The women with anomalous dominance (consisting of left-handed and ambidextrous as well as right-handed women with first-degree non-right-handed relatives) were compared to women with standard dominance (right-handed women with all right-handed first-degree relatives) on the Bem Test of Sex Role Identity and a tomboy scale.
(16) Across three samples, handedness classifications were related to both tomboy characteristics and sex role identification.
(17) However, studies have also shown that while these exposed girls exhibited long-term tomboyism, their gender identity was feminine.
(18) And Twitter is flinging snowballs too: Tom Boyer (@tomboyer) @ kidweil FIFA should be embarrassed by letting this USA CRC game start in the first place.BPL games aren't played in this mess.
(19) Four of them were reared as girls and differentiated a female gender identity with tomboyism.
(20) Tutin was mesmerising as this uncomprehending, terrified middle-aged Sleeping Beauty who still perceived herself as a tomboy teenager, and this should have given a boost to her career.