Definition of "boyism" in English

noun

1. (obsolete) boyhood

2. (obsolete) The nature of a boy; childishness.

   • 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