"choirboy" meaning in All languages combined

See choirboy on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-choirboy.wav [US] Forms: choirboys [plural]
Etymology: choir + boy Etymology templates: {{compound|en|choir|boy}} choir + boy Head templates: {{en-noun}} choirboy (plural choirboys)
  1. A boy chorister. Categories (topical): Musicians, People Translations (boy chorister): escolà [masculine] (Catalan), ĥorknabo (Esperanto), kuoripoika (Finnish), kuoropoika (Finnish), Chorknabe [masculine] (German), escolano [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-choirboy-en-noun-hYNlN~is Disambiguation of Musicians: 65 35 Disambiguation of People: 61 39 Disambiguation of 'boy chorister': 98 2
  2. (figurative) A piously innocent person. Tags: figuratively Translations (piously innocent person): enfant de chœur [masculine] (French), Chorknabe [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-choirboy-en-noun-hMbOFzBP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 97 Disambiguation of 'piously innocent person': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: choir boy Derived forms: choirboyish

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