boyhood

[ boi-hoo d ]

/ ˈbɔɪ hʊd /

the state or period of being a boy: Boyhood is a happy time of life.

boys collectively: the boyhood of America.

Origin of boyhood

First recorded in 1735–45; boy + -hood

pre·boy·hood, noun

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

Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange |Marlow Stern |December 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In some ways, a lot of the stuff we were doing in the Before trilogy is done better in Boyhood.

Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange |Marlow Stern |December 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
People compliment me on Boyhood sometimes, and I think, “Well, it better have been good!”

Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange |Marlow Stern |December 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
We wrote Before Sunset and Before Midnight while we were working on Boyhood, and all those films are all about time.

Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange |Marlow Stern |December 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

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

Black 'Boyhood' Is Always Black First, Boy Later |Teo Bugbee |August 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But years at fifty are no more than months at thirty,—are less than weeks in boyhood.

John Caldigate |Anthony Trollope
And then came the rough, barbaric age, the boyhood of our race.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow |Jerome K. Jerome
The one all through the years of boyhood is going to meet the one who is coming through all the years of girlhood to meet him.

The Wedding Ring |T. De Witt Talmage
What Whitefield says of his boyhood's wickedness must be received with caution.

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume I (of 2) |Luke Tyerman
Casanova, in the first chapter of his Memoirs, says that he suffered during his boyhood from the same violent hmorrhages.

The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first |Count Carlo Gozzi

boyhood

/ (ˈbɔɪhʊd) /

the state or time of being a boy his boyhood was happy