boyish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: boy=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

boyish, a. 

 Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.  [1913 Webster]
"A boyish, odd conceit."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

boyish

adolescent, airy, attenuate, attenuated, beardless, boylike, calflike, childish, childlike, coltish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, girllike, gossamer, gracile, immature, insubstantial, juvenile, kiddish, lacy, light, maiden, maidenly, misty, papery, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, rare, rarefied, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, young, youthful

ROGET THESAURUS

boyish

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.