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单词 twichild
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twichild
twichild n.
Brit. /ˈtwʌɪtʃʌɪld/
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U.S. /ˈtwaɪˌtʃaɪld/
(also twy-child) obsolete exc. dialect one who is ‘twice a child’, an old man in his second childhood; also, (one's) second childhood; also as adj.
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the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > infirm old person
decrepit1578
twichildc1580
the world > people > person > old person > [adjective] > second childhood
twichildc1580
twice-childish1605
the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > second childhood
second childhood1549
second childishnessa1616
second infancya1627
second childship1691
infancy1697
twichild1889
c1580 tr. Bugbears i. iii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 98 313 O my twichild and my babye!
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xx. §199 Old men are said to grow children again, and to bee twichilde.
1829 R. Southey Oliver Newman vi Encumber'd with a twichild man.
1889 A. Gissing Both of this Parish II. xxiii. 175 I thought it was but a deception o' my twichild, for I be getting aged.
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