[f. BOY sb.1 + -KIN.] A little boy: used as a term of affection.

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1547.  Salesbury, Welsh Dict., Herlotyn, boykyn.

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1658.  Brome, New Acad., I. i. 3. Where’s my Boykin? my Friskoe? my Delight?

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a. 1687.  Cotton, Æneid Burl., II. (1692), 80. I’m fixt to go along With thee, my boykin, right or wrong.

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1822.  T. Mitchell, Aristoph., II. 316. This species, boykin? cruet or sea-spider?

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