kidsicle

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English

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Etymology

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From kid +‎ -sicle.

Noun

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kidsicle (plural kidsicles)

  1. (informal, humorous) A cold or frozen child.
    • 2007, Michele Gendelmen, Ilene Graff, & Donna Rosenstein, What the Other Mothers Know: A Practical Guide to Child Rearing Told in a Really Nice, Funny Way That Won't Make You Feel Like a Complete Idiot the Way All Those Other Parenting Books Do, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 21:
      And because Ilene also had one of those houses that are always cold, she'd automatically assumed that her fragile, delicate infant would turn into a kidsicle without all those layers.
    • 2014, Annie Tipton, Diary of a Real Payne: Oh Baby![1], Barbour Publishing, →ISBN:
      When the deep freeze sets in and temperatures dip to the single digits (on a warm day), we can't be outside for me than two minutes without turning into kidsicles.
    • 2014 June 18, Julie Crawford, “Snowpiercer takes us on one wild ride”, in North Shore News:
      Then there's the hilarity and sunny weirdness of the school train (led by Scott Pilgrim's Alison Pill), complete with a rotating organ and the children singing songs about not being turned into kidsicles.

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