thinks balloon
chiefly British
noun
(In a comic-strip cartoon or similar illustration) a circle resembling a balloon or bubble floating above a character's head and containing the character's thought in direct speech, originally following the word ‘thinks’.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Spectator.
- child-directed speech
- Childe
- childed
- child endowment
- childe parte
- Childermas
- Childers, Erskine
- child-farming
- child-free
- child-friendliness
- child-friendly
- child-geared
- child genius
- child guidance
- childhead
- childhood
- childhood sweetheart
- childie
- childing
- childish
- childishly
- childishness
- Child, Julia
- child labour
- child-land