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kiddyish

kiddyish adjective: frolicsome; sportive.

Adjective

kiddyish (comparative more kiddyish, superlative most kiddyish)

  1. (archaic, rare, slang) frolicsome; sportive
    • Think on the kiddyish spree we had on such a day.1820, Thomas Moore, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius

Forms of kiddyish

comparativemore kiddyish
superlativemost kiddyish

Origin of kiddyish

From kiddy + -ish.

Questions about kiddyish

What does kiddyish mean?
Kiddyish means frolicsome; sportive.
What part of speech is kiddyish?
Kiddyish is an adjective.

Words near kiddyish in the dictionary

  1. kiddy tables
  2. kiddy widdies
  3. kiddy widdy
  4. kiddygarten
  5. kiddying
  6. kiddyish
  7. kiddywink
  8. kiddywinkies
  9. kiddywinks
  10. kidel
  11. kidels

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