Boylike

His name was Jimmy Darl Thigpin, and the diminutive or boylike image his name suggested, as with many southern names, was egregiously misleading. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Despite the knowledge of the risks, everything about him had drawn her closer-the surprise at seeing him walking toward her on the beach, his easy smile and tousled hair, the nervous, boylike gaze-and in that instant, he'd been both the man she knew and the man she didn't. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What I need is a boylike banshee yell launch off the rope swing. ❋ Janine Latus (2007)

Since Mary is also described as having a boylike grace of movement, even the least jaded attention is inevitably drawn to what is apparently being disowned. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And in a culminating brainstorm that assumed, boylike, that any passing impulse could be turned into reality: “Bring Joe along with you.” ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Wacky in a forced sort of way, Jules-Verne-ish in its fantastical balloon-centered antics, the book is at once boylike and redolent of desperation. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

She rose and sauntered along, distending her bust — in defiance of the boylike fashion, which, after all, was on the wane — to take in the full of a sweet wind. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But here, for want of incentive, matters remained; Maurice was kept close at his school-books, and, boylike, he had no ambition to distinguish himself in a field so different from that in which his comrades won their spurs. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He walked out to his taxicab with what was almost a slink — recovering only a little of his self-respect as he boarded the train; glad to escape, boylike, to the wonder palaces of consolation that still rose and glittered in his own mind. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A picture of her began to form in his imagination — Nancy walking boylike and debonnaire along the street, taking an orange as tithe from a worshipful fruit-dealer, charging a dope on a mythical account, at ❋ Unknown (2003)

They had all accompanied his travels, and boylike he valued them immensely. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Next, distending his ruddy cheeks, twitching his moustache, and regarding me covertly out of boylike eyes, the Lieutenant resumed: ❋ Unknown (2003)

His sheet had fallen down over his hip, and his exposed arm and naked back and boylike face gave him an aura of vulnerability that she had never associated with the Lou Kale she had known on Post Office Street. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

[juan] is a boyliker. he [likes] [them boys]. ❋ Mexiko (2009)

Hey [Eli]! Did you know [Teo] likes boys? Yeah he just told me, turns out he's a [boyliker]. ❋ EliHubbert (2022)

“Hi I’m DogeVEVO and I am a Boyliker and [I like men] and [balls and shaft] and penis and [scrotum]” ❋ PhantomStar (2021)