adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a boyish manner, like a boy.

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1581.  J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 64. And the same question repeateth agayne and agayne very boyeshly.

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1807.  Anna Porter, Hungar. Bro., I. i. 29. To hide the sensibility, which boyishly he blushed at.

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1849.  Stovel, Canne’s Necess., Introd. p. cvii. Boyishly exclaiming, ‘No bishop, no king.’

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