Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHILD'ISH
CHILD'ISH, a.
- Belonging to a child; trifling; puerile. When I became a man, I put away childish things. – 1 Cor. xiii.
- Pertaining to a child; as, childish years or age; childish sports.
- Pertaining to children; ignorant; silly; weak; as, childish fear.
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