unboyish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not boyish.
Example Sentences
- "The emerald-green bathing suit pulled taut across boyish hips and decidedly unboyish breasts, the wet material leaving little to the imagination[…]"
- "Everybody knew that had he properly exerted his abilities he was capable of beating almost any boy; so, to quiet his conscience, he professed to ridicule diligence as an unboyish piece of muffishness, and was never slow to sneer at the "grinders," as he contemptuously called all those who laid themselves out to win school distinctions."
Etymology
From un- + boyish.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unboyish (comparative)
most unboyish (superlative)