Antonym: girlhood. Similar words: ballyhoo, by hook or by crook, hood, hoodlum, manhood, hoodwink, motherhood, brotherhood. Meaning: ['bɔɪhʊd] n. the childhood of a boy.
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61. But these developments, in Henry's boyhood, had touched farming hardly at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done.
62. Gone from home so long, he joyously embraced his mates of boyhood.
63. A visit to Mr. Harcourt Talboys was perhaps rather more like a return to boyhood and boarding-school than is quite consonant with the Sybarite view of human enjoyment.
64. He has grown out of the bad habits of his boyhood days.
65. Tell how his boyhood was one drear night-hour, How shone for him, through his griefs and gloom, 10 No star of all heaven sends to light our Path to the tomb.
66. Moreover, Orestes's journey from boyhood to maturity is a metaphor for the transformation of Athenian society itself.
67. He saw people as puppets, controlled by some pitiless force much as he, in boyhood, had controlled his own marionettes in his toy theatre, making Mr Punch jibber and squawk in nonsense-language.
68. Matin Evans was born in 1941, also in Britain. He is director of the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University in Wales. He called winning the Nobel Prize "a boyhood dream come true."
69. He felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood—his rose-white boyhood, as Lord Henry had once called it.
More similar words: ballyhoo, by hook or by crook, hood, hoodlum, manhood, hoodwink, motherhood, brotherhood, statehood, adulthood, childhood, falsehood, hardihood, likelihood, knighthood, livelihood, priesthood, neighbourhood, neighborhood, in the neighborhood of, anyhow, boy, happy hour, boyle, pantyhose, cubbyhole, cowboy, boyish, busboy, pageboy.