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means The period of being a boy, from childhood through the edge of manhood — and by extension, anything made about that stretch of life.

from A plain Old English build: 'boy' plus the suffix '-hood,' which once meant 'condition, quality, or state of being' (the same ending shows up in 'childhood' and 'brotherhood'). 'Boy' itself is oddly stubborn about its past — its earliest origins are murky, possibly tied to Old French or Low German words for a servant or knave before it settled into meaning simply 'male child.' So the word is less a story than a formula: take a life-stage, bolt on '-hood,' and you've named the territory of it.