choirboy
nounEtymology From choir + boy.
1
A boy chorister.
2
Figuratively A piously innocent person.
- Kordic is no choirboy. The tribunal has accused him of crimes against humanity for helping to orchestrate a massive campaign of persecution against Muslims in the Lasva valley in central Bosnia.2004, Pierre Hazan, Justice in a Time of War, page 108:
- Derived terms
- choirboyish