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boyhood

[ boi-hood ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

boyhood

/ ˈbɔɪhʊd /

Origin of boyhood¹

First recorded in 1735–45; boy + -hood

It seems like you had to make the Before trilogy first in order to achieve something like Boyhood.

In some ways, a lot of the stuff we were doing in the Before trilogy is done better in Boyhood.

People compliment me on Boyhood sometimes, and I think, “Well, it better have been good!”

We wrote Before Sunset and Before Midnight while we were working on Boyhood, and all those films are all about time.

Innovation is a poor substitute for insight, at least where boyhood is concerned.

Of his private life during manhood we know very little, of his boyhood nothing.

He seemed to pass under the mastery of a great mood that was a composite reproduction of all the moods of his forgotten boyhood.

Perhaps he is a little conscious of his charm; if so, it is hardly his fault, for hero-worship has been his lot from boyhood.

He had begun life as an officer in the French household troops in absolute boyhood.

He saw them dark and beautiful, tender as his mother's, true and faithful, as in his boyhood's dream of years ago.

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