Boyishly: alternatives and connections

A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a dim…

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.

behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a…

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to class…

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (…

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…

The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other ani…

Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other ge…

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellul…

To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.

Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.

Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.