kiddyish

English

Etymology

kiddy +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

kiddyish (comparative more kiddyish, superlative most kiddyish)

1. (archaic, slang) frolicsome; sportive
   • 1820, Thomas Moore, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius:

     Think on the kiddyish spree we had on such a day.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kiddyish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)