puerile• puerilejokes• It is true that one can scan a whole evening's programmes and find only puerilejunk on every channel.• An apparently astonishing claim, and a puerile one too, but true none the less.• What a puerile thing to say!• I have devoted myself to knowledge, while you preferpuerile things like prose, rhythm and metre.
Originpuerile
(1500-1600)Frenchpuéril, from Latinpuerilis, from puer“boy, child”