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What does schoolboyish mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word schoolboyish? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Resembling a schoolboy in behaviour.
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The atmosphere struck Rosalind as coarse and schoolboyish.
Turning towards a purer rock, less schoolboyish according to the authors themselves, it corresponded to the spirit which drives Matmatah today.
We started well, moved the ball around well but some of our play was schoolboyish.
It seems like a schoolboyish thing but there's some real camaraderie there.
The magazine, which once set the pace of political satire, was outwitted in the circulation department by the racier Private Eye and the schoolboyish Viz magazine.
My point is that, far from Clarkson's recent antics being just another schoolboyish pushing at the boundaries of political correctness and all that, it actually speaks to a pretty unpleasant and long-established mindset.

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