childsplay

English

Noun

childsplay (uncountable)

1. (chiefly dated) Alternative form of child's play
   • 1926, Seymour Hicks, “Green Gets Off At Adelaide” (chapter XIV), in Hullo Australians‎^[1], page 156:

     […] for the obstacles Nature placed in his path were childsplay compared with the difficulties a Home Government without vision surrounded him with.

   • 1906, Wilhelm Aylau, Carrie Aylau, The Profession of Teaching Music‎^[2], page 95:

     And the education of the eye is childsplay in comparison with that of the keyboard-sense and the ear, […]

   • 1915, “Loan Burglars on the Curb Separate and Collect”, in Goodwin's Weekly‎^[3], volume 25, number 11, page 4:

     One of the enthusiastic pilgrims who returned from the property this week said it is childsplay to break the hundred tons now being forwarded daily to the smelters.