kidhood

Noun

kidhood (usually uncountable, plural kidhoods)

1. (informal, usually) childhood
   • I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.
   • It suggests how deeply the comics had implanted themselves in kidhood consciousness in only their second decade as a normative pop-cultural universe; how shocking and yet irresistible we found each new and more subversive permutation; and how recklessly indifferent to adult America’s ever hardening...2008 March 23, Ron Powers, “Penny Dreadfuls”, in New York Times