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choirboyish

adj

Etymology

From choirboy + -ish.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as choirboy — “choir + boy”
  8. suffixed as choirboyish — “choirboy + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a choirboy.

    • It was a sweet, choirboyish face, despite the full brown mustache, much younger looking than thirty.

The neighborhood

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