kiddish

Adjective

kiddish (comparative more kiddish, superlative most kiddish)

1. (informal) Childish; immature.
   • So! here I find on kiddish mind / Traditionary lore instil'd. / Tho' fairly bookt, Nymph might have lookt / For poet's promise unfulfil'd.1855 March 3, Walter Savage Landor, “To a Kid”, in Pen and Pencil, lines 21–24; republished in Stephen Wheeler, editor, The Poetrical Works of Walter Savage Landor, volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press...
   • They can't even focus on the speech by our President. They have to go through their mobile phones, check their messages, or play video games. This kiddish temperament of unstable mind, if this needs to be controlled, you need yoga.2019 June 21, Ram Madhav, quotee, “'Kiddish Temperament': Ram Madhav's Yoga Day Shot At Rahul Gandhi”, in NDTV

   Synonyms:

   infantile

2. (informal) Of, like, or suitable for a child.
   • There was something kiddish about Clotilde, something especially kiddish as she strode along the winding country road, face uplifted, tinted with peach-blow color in either cheek, eyes bland and untroubled as an infant's, red lips parted over even white teeth, her whole slender body thrown, with a...1918, Allan Updegraff, Strayed Revellers, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 10
   • It had caught my eye specifically because of the shiny packaging and how like kiddish it sort of looked, so I thought it might to be fun to try on.2020 January 10, Ida Domingo, quoting Lauren Moore, “Missouri teen says 'Yes To' face mask burned her face”, in CBS Austin

   Synonyms:

   childly