Amusement for boys; trifling, child’s-play.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., V. iv. 76. You shall finde no Boyes play heere, I can tell you.
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 249. Princes … are past such boyes-play.
1812. L. Hunt, in Examiner, 21 Dec., 814/1. Most of his tragedies … are little better than so much gigantic boy’s-play.
