1. Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
2. Immature; childish.
“Only Olive owned ostentatious orgasms;
the puerile position of pomp belonged to Popeye.”
—Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, “The Origin of Olive Oyl”
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puerile, adj.
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1. Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
2. Immature; childish.
“Only Olive owned ostentatious orgasms;
the puerile position of pomp belonged to Popeye.”
—Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, “The Origin of Olive Oyl”
Read at Boston Review