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che-ild|tʃiːˈaɪld|
Also chee-(y)ild.
A representation (usu. ironical) of an affected or melodramatic pronunciation of child n.
1896G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) II. 54 Oh, that young wife who was about to run away from him when she was reminded of her own mother and her own chee-yild! 1911‘Ian Hay’ Safety Match xii. 189 My che-ild! So that's the game! 1941‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman i. 7 You're not a woman. You're an infant cheeild. Ibid. xiii. 142 Quite right, infant chee-ild. 1966M. Steen Looking Glass ii. 34 The meeting at Euston was unemotional... I had worked myself into a panic over some apprehended ‘My che-ild, my che-ild!’ |