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childish

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishchildisch, fromOld Englishċildisċ. Bysurface analysis,child +‎ish.

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childish (comparativemorechildish,superlativemostchildish)

  1. Immature in thought or behaviour.
    Yourchildish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
  2. belonging to or suitable for achild.
    This game is verychildish.
    • 1824, Susan Ferrier,The Inheritance, page130:
      She remembered, too, when, after a longchildish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden,[]
    • 1849 May –1850 November,Charles Dickens,The Personal History of David Copperfield, London:Bradbury & Evans, [], published1850,→OCLC:
      As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by mychildish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins’s voice!

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behaving immaturely
belonging to or suitable for a child
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