schoolboyishly
English edit
Etymology edit
schoolboyish + -ly
Adverb edit
schoolboyishly (comparative more schoolboyishly, superlative most schoolboyishly)
- In a schoolboyish way.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 109:
- Hari Singh laughed schoolboyishly through the nest of beard.