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unboyish

adj

Etymology

From un- + boyish.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. suffixed as boyish — “boy + ish”
  8. prefixed as unboyish — “un + boyish”

Definitions

  1. Not boyish.

    • The emerald-green bathing suit pulled taut across boyish hips and decidedly unboyish breasts, the wet material leaving little to the imagination[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unboyish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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