childmind
childmind verb: to look after children while their parents are absent.
Verb
childmind (third-person singular simple present childminds, present participle childminding, simple past and past participle childminded)
- To look after children while their parents are absent.
- In fact, he helped me childmind Thomas who at one time needed to relieve himself and was desperate for a toilet.2001, Patrick Miti, Walking Through AIDS, page 90
- When Mum arrived, last as usual, late as usual, Rosie told her straight off she couldn't childmind me no more.2003, Helena Pielichaty, After School Club, page 21
- Synonyms:
- babysit
Noun
childmind (plural childminds)
- The mind of a child.
- Knowing how the childmind attains a certain result is worth more to a truth seeking teacher than all the tables in the Arithmetic; for having this knowledge of the childmind she is able to present such conditions and things as the mind is able to grasp and know.1887, Southwestern Journal of Education - Volume 5
- There must have been two dozen of the shadow people, invented by the childmind of Enoch Robinson, who lived in the room with him.1992, Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
- That aspect of one's psyche that is childlike.
- In a healthy psyche the childmind and the adultmind interplay and assist one another. When the childmind is protected by an ennobled adultmind, the childmind is free to play, and wonder, and live in innocence.2010, True Blue Indigo, A Personal Aristocracy, page 65
- To get back our enthusiasm, we first need to remind ourselves of the devil-may-care attitude of our childmind.2014, Nick Bantock, The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
Synonyms of childmind
Forms of childmind
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | childminds |
| present participle | childminding |
| past participle | childminded |
| past | childminded |
| Noun | |
| plural | childminds |
Origin of childmind
From child + mind.
Words formed from childmind
Questions about childmind
- What does childmind mean?
- Childmind means to look after children while their parents are absent.
- What part of speech is childmind?
- Childmind can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of childmind?
- The past tense of childmind is childminded.
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