What's the difference between cheeky and schoolboy?

Cheeky


Definition:

  • () a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Magnussen performed a cheeky pass on Hulkenberg before they reached the second safety line, controversial.
  • (2) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
  • (3) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
  • (4) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
  • (5) 'He’s still a cheeky little sod, but he’s definitely a nicer boy' … Allan and Michelle Darwin with their son Zane.
  • (6) However, give or take the odd cheeky top-up, here I am in the one-glass-of-wine-a-night zone.
  • (7) (Plus, he was still willing to play the cheeky bad boy, criticising Sainsbury's stance on chicken, and only apologising to the company once he had got his message across.)
  • (8) It was a cheeky thing to say since "misuse" is a loaded term.
  • (9) John Oliver's cheeky net neutrality plea crashes FCC website Read more Spurred on by online activists including Fight for the Future , a six-person team that has managed to coordinate protests with people and companies including Reddit, Netflix, Mozilla and PornHub, people have now submitted more than four million comments on the FCC proposals.
  • (10) He makes it to the area and draws Krul, but his cheeky chip over the advancing keeper floats wide left of the open goal.
  • (11) His assertion in interviews that the borrowing rate is 8.9% to 14.9% is also a little bit cheeky.
  • (12) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
  • (13) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
  • (14) "Or is he off being cheeky and cheerful (but ineffective) somewhere else?
  • (15) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
  • (16) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (17) What makes cheeky Salmond think an independent Scotland would be allowed to use the pound, or enter the EU, or be admitted to Nato?
  • (18) Andrew is an extrovert, a cheerful lovely soul, a cheeky guy,” says Morrissey.
  • (19) I remember those children when we first met them, and they were so bubbly, and so vibrant and cheeky and funny and just over time how their personality would change,” Reen said.
  • (20) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.

Schoolboy


Definition:

  • (n.) A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (2) By 1946, the 17-year-old Cairo schoolboy realised that, with the Zionists pressing their armed violence, the Palestinians would have to fight.
  • (3) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (4) Their actions have buried two local sons , one a schoolboy.
  • (5) Seventy six untrained schoolboys, aged 10.5-15.5 years, participated in this study.
  • (6) Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, pictured right, and his friend, Themba Tshabalala, are accused of killing four schoolboys after racing two Mini Coopers in the streets of Soweto only to lose control and plough into a group of children.
  • (7) Up the hill, the prince was trying out his schoolboy French – " C'est un honneur pour nous d'être parmi vous … merci votre patience avec mon accent " – and was cheered for doing so.
  • (8) In this study the mean age of the onset of puberty in Tswana schoolboys was determined.
  • (9) A marathon runner, Ennals once played football for England schoolboys and his late uncle, Lord David Ennals, was minister for health in James Callaghan's 1970s Labour government.
  • (10) "A complicated man, he encouraged our efforts, then turned and provoked me like a Machiavellian schoolboy.
  • (11) From here, our political leaders seem like a bunch of guilty schoolboys standing around a beautiful animal they have just pulled the wings and legs off.
  • (12) The warmest cheers came for the NHS ("not for sale", warned Unison's Dave Prentis), for attacks on the banks or (Unite's Len McCluskey) that "gaggle of public schoolboys on the make" who run the coalition.
  • (13) A 10-year-old schoolboy was referred to the Ophthalmic Unit of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital because of sudden loss of sight following 5 days of severe frontal headache.
  • (14) He began working for the Labour party as a schoolboy, distributing leaflets for his local officials.
  • (15) The unforseeable evolution of innate gifts in a child sometimes permits a partial transcendence of these crippling defenses, as Orwell partially transcended what appears to have been the emotional deprivation of his childhood and what he felt to have been the abuse of his schoolboy years.
  • (16) Teachers should be given more powers to search pupils they suspect of carrying knives, according to an independent report on the death of the Aberdeen schoolboy Bailey Gwynne, which goes on to recommend that the Scottish government explore tighter controls on buying weapons online.
  • (17) While the smoking habit of the secondary schoolboys was influenced by the smoking habits of their parents and friends, the smoking habit of the secondary schoolgirls and female medical students was mainly influenced by that of their friends.
  • (18) "He went for it," says Beckett with a laugh, sounding less like a record mogul and more like a naughty schoolboy.
  • (19) "I will never be able to be back to being the sprinter that I used to be," says the former schoolboy athlete ruefully, "but I want to be fitter.
  • (20) Mr Cameron's visit - at the start of a week-long parliamentary recess - sees him escaping a small row back home over his alleged drug use as a schoolboy at Eton.

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