schoolboyishly

English

Etymology

schoolboyish +‎ -ly

Adverb

schoolboyishly (comparative more schoolboyishly, superlative most schoolboyishly)

1. 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.