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childish, a.|ˈtʃaɪldɪʃ|
[OE. cildisc, f. cild child: see -ish1.]
1. Of, belonging, or proper to a child or to childhood; childlike; infantile, juvenile.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 2318 (Gr.) Cildisc wesan. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1168 Wole ye the childische jalousye countirfete? c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) i. lxxi, Thyse ensamples arn chyldisshe. 1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 65 This dwelling, wheare rests thee childish Iulus. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 162 His bigge manly voice, Turning againe toward childish trebble. 1774J. Wright in Athenæum (1886) 10 July 56/2 The youngest has..such a sweet childish expression. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 2, I feel..my father's hand..Stroke out my childish curls.
2. Exhibiting unduly the characteristics of childhood; not befitting mature age; puerile, silly.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. xxviii. (1860) 8 After thy childisshe chere and froward conceyt. 1481Caxton Reynard xxxii. (Arb.) 94 Ar ye so moche chyldyssh that ye byleue this false and subtyl shrewe. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, v. iv. 38 What cannot be auoided, 'Twere childish weakenesse to lament. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. 23 The distinction..is not..so childish and impertinent as our Author would have believed. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 217 The childish titles of aristocracy. 1867Chamb. Jrnl. 30 Nov. 739/1 ‘Childish’ and ‘childlike’ when applied to adults—the former implying censure, and the latter the reverse. 1884Chr. World 30 Oct. 831/1 Child-like faith is not necessarily childish faith.
3. Comb. as childish-minded, childish-mindedness.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 142, I am too childish foolish for this World. a1626Bacon (T.), I love birds, as the king does; and have some childishmindedness wherein we shall consent. 1701Steele Tatler No. 83 ⁋2 Neither Childish-young, nor Beldam-old. |