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kiddish

  • a word derived from kid.
    kid
    noun
    a child or young person.

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She remembers it became too "kiddish" when she was about 13 and she started shopping at Primark instead.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

He uses more of the muscles in his face and has a kiddish smile.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2018

Look at the kiddish kick-up along o' the visit of the Hempress!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 by Various

No; that would have been a kiddish thing to do; and after all, Jan., Miss Hull was really doing what she thought was right.

From The Twins in the South by Dorothy Whitehill

I’m fourteen, you know, but if I’d been four I couldn’t have acted more kiddish.

From Those Dale Girls by Frank Weston Carruth