choirboy

[ kwahyuh r-boi ]

/ ˈkwaɪərˌbɔɪ /

a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.

Slang. a person who is notably honest, moral, or innocent.

Origin of choirboy

First recorded in 1830–40; choir + boy

No choir-boy older than ten could look at one with quite such a straight simplicity.

The Pastor's Wife |Elizabeth von Arnim
Young Henry seems to have become a choir-boy as a mere matter of family custom.

Purcell |John F. Runciman
First, to be a choir-boy; and, secondly, to dwell in Daddy Darwin's Dovecot.

Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories |Juliana Horatio Ewing
Her voice was not like a choir-boy's; her manner was not like the manner of an image; her eyes were not for ever cast down.

The Woman With The Fan |Robert Hichens

One of them who was most remarkable for his eccentricities was a choir-boy in the church of Lourdes.

Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871 |Various

choirboy

/ (ˈkwaɪəˌbɔɪ) /

one of a number of young boys who sing the treble part in a church choir