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boyhood

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boy  (boi)
n.
1. A male child.
2. A son: his youngest boy.
3. Often Offensive A man, especially a young man.
4. Informal A man socializing in a group of men: a night out with the boys.
5. Offensive A male servant or employee.
interj.
Used to express mild astonishment, elation, or disgust: Oh boywhat a surprise!

[Middle English boi, possibly from Old French embuié, servant, past participle of embuier, to fetter.]

boyhood n.

boyhood [ˈbɔɪhʊd]
n
the state or time of being a boy his boyhood was happy

Boyhood boys collectively, 1802.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.boyhoodboyhood - the childhood of a boy              
childhood - the time of person's life when they are a child
Translations
boyhood [ˈbɔɪhʊd] Nniñez f; (as teenager) → adolescencia f
boyhood [ˈbɔɪhʊd] n (= childhood) → enfance f
boyhood [ˈbɔɪhʊd] ninfanzia; (as teenager) → adolescenza
boyhood [ˈbɔɪhʊd] ninfanzia; (as teenager) → adolescenza


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My passions, from that hapless hour, Usurp'd a tyranny which men Have deem'd, since I have reach'd to power; My innate nature - be it so: But, father, there liv'd one who, then, Then - in my boyhood - when their fire Burn'd with a still intenser glow,(For passion must, with youth, expire) E'en then who knew this iron heart In woman's weakness had a part.
She was really a little gold-haired blue-eyed dryad, whose true home was a wild white cherry-tree that grew in some scattered woodland behind the old country-house of my boyhood.
I thought that among those surroundings, with their recollections of his boyhood, Dirk Stroeve would forget his unhappiness.
 
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