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verbunboy (third-person singular simple present unboys, present participle unboying, simple past and past participle unboyed)
present singular third person unboys · participle present unboying · participle past unboyed · past unboyed
- transitiveTo divest of the traits of a boy.
it was now time to unboy him, by putting him into some action and acquaintance of business
1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater
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