childishadj.

Brit.

/ˈtʃʌɪldɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈtʃaɪldɪʃ/

Forms: see child n. and -ish suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: child n., -ish suffix¹.

Etymology: < child n. + -ish suffix¹. Compare childly adj.Compare Middle Dutch kindsc, kintsc, kintsh, kinsh (Dutch kindsch, †kindisch), Old Saxon kindisk (Middle Low German kindes, kindesch), Old High German kindisc, chindisk (Middle High German kindisch, kindesch, German kindisch).

1. Of, like, or appropriate to a child or to childhood; childlike.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of

childlyeOE

childishOE

childen?c1225

childheady1340

puerile1527

pupillary1611

pupillar1832

bread-and-buttery1858

chittish1871

brattish1879

kiddish1897

OE Genesis A (1931) 2320 Sceal monna gehwilc þære cneorisse cildisc wesan wæpnedcynnes, þæs þe on woruld cymð, ymb seofon niht sigores tacne geagnod me.

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) iv. ix. 284 Wæs in þam ylcan mynstre sum hysecild;..se for þære cildiscan [eOE Tanner cildlecan, L. infantilem] yldo þa gyta wæs on þæra nunnena mynstre Gode gehalgodra feded.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1168 Wol ye the chyldyssh Ialousye contrefete.

1494 W. Hilton Scala Perfeccionis (de Worde) i. lxxi. sig. giii Thyse ensamples arn chyldisshe.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xlvii. 4) i. f. 183 If after the bringing of the Ark into the Temple, there had appered none other hygher truth: it had bin but as a chyldish toy to lodge vp god in that narrow lodging roome.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 40 This dwelling, wheare rests thee childish Iulus.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 162 His bigge manly voice, Turning againe toward childish trebble.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1670 (1955) III. 564 That famed beauty (but in my opinion of a childish simple & baby face) Madamoiselle Quirreval.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 8 Nor did Esther Davis a little comfort and inspirit me to venture with her, by piquing my childish curiosity with the fine sights that were to be seen in London.

1774 J. Wright in Athenæum (1886) 10 July 56/2 The youngest has..such a sweet childish expression.

1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 205 Fantastic forms..who made up to me—to my childish eyes—the mythology of the Temple.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 2 I..feel My father's slow hand..Stroke out my childish curls.

1902 W. Cather Treasure of Far Island in S. O'Brien Willa Cather Stories (1987) 155 About a month ago I changed my apartment in New York, and as I was sorting over my traps I came across a box of childish souvenirs.

1947 Amer. Home Oct. 150/2 Childish voices in ghostlike tones squeal, croak, or whisper, ‘Trick or Treat!’

2000 C. Calman in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 335 How much worse to be irresistible when you're six, only to watch your childish charms disappear one by one.

2. With reference to a person who is no longer a child: not befitting maturity; puerile, foolish, silly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adjective]

childishc1405

indigest1423

bairnly1533

babish?1552

babished1563

babyish1646

puerilea1680

chitty1755

jejune1898

immature1902

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 32 Which nys but childissh vanytee.

?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 8 After thy childisshe chere and froward conceyt.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 88 Ar ye so moche chyldyssh that ye byleue this false and subtyl shrewe?

1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 82 I am not so childishe to take euery bushe for a monster.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. iv. 38 What cannot be auoided, 'Twere childish weakenesse to lament.

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 23 in Scepsis Scientifica The distinction..is not..so childish and impertinent as our Author would have believed.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. vii. 136 Because he does not cry out and lament himself, like those of a childish or effeminate Temper.

1779 W. Cowper Let. 31 Oct. (1979) I. 307 The childish Prattlement of Pastoral Compositions.

1795 S. T. Coleridge Conciones ad Populum Introd. Addr. 19 The childish titles of Aristocracy.

1884 Christian World 30 Oct. 831/1 Child-like faith is not necessarily childish faith.

1930 D. L. Sayers Strong Poison vi. 75 We have seen and heard nothing of her for well over fifty years. I believe she is quite childish now.

1947 T. H. White Mistress Masham's Repose iv. 30 ‘Look here,’ she said. ‘I can't indulge in childish arguments. I came on business.’

1987 E. Dunlop House on Hill (1990) xx. 146 I started telling her what really happened, thinking she's dismiss it as a lot of childish nonsense.

2004 Cosmo Girl Aug. 95/2 With his huge grin you can tell the American Pie star takes childish glee in gross-out jokes.

Compounds

Chiefly appositive, parasynthetic, and similative, as childish-minded, childish-young. N.E.D. (1889) included childish-mindedness, based on an unreliable reading in the following quotation:

1624 F. Bacon Lett. (1763) 354 I love birds, as the king doth; and have some childish mindedness [1874 ed. Spedding A word which I cannot make out. Birch read it ‘mindedness’, which it cannot have been meant for] wherein we shall consent.

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c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 21 As in yowre part now be not childisshe gast.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I2^v You wil be thought More childish valourous than manly wise.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 142 I am too childish, foolish for this world.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 83. ⁋2 Neither childish-young, nor beldam-old.

1856 T. A. Trollope Girlhood of Catherine de' Medici xi. 175 Savonarola..had preached that ‘lilies should flourish by the side of lilies;’—a puerility, which had exercised more influence on the childish-minded citizens than the profoundest wisdom would have obtained.

1896 G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties 26 Dec. (1932) II. 291 Why not have Lady Anne presented as a weak, childish-witted, mesmerized creature?

1919 School Rev. 27 10 Unassorted nature-study intensifies the childish mindedness so characterized by the disorganization of its knowledge.

2003 Times (Nexis) 22 Dec. 11 There is an important difference between these charming automata and the busy bureaucrats of Brussels. The former are there to amuse the childish minded.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	childish
释义	childishadj. Brit. /ˈtʃʌɪldɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈtʃaɪldɪʃ/ Forms: see child n. and -ish suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: child n., -ish suffix¹. Etymology: < child n. + -ish suffix¹. Compare childly adj.Compare Middle Dutch kindsc, kintsc, kintsh, kinsh (Dutch kindsch, †kindisch), Old Saxon kindisk (Middle Low German kindes, kindesch), Old High German kindisc, chindisk (Middle High German kindisch, kindesch, German kindisch). 1. Of, like, or appropriate to a child or to childhood; childlike. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of childlyeOE childishOE childen?c1225 childheady1340 puerile1527 pupillary1611 pupillar1832 bread-and-buttery1858 chittish1871 brattish1879 kiddish1897 OE Genesis A (1931) 2320 Sceal monna gehwilc þære cneorisse cildisc wesan wæpnedcynnes, þæs þe on woruld cymð, ymb seofon niht sigores tacne geagnod me. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) iv. ix. 284 Wæs in þam ylcan mynstre sum hysecild;..se for þære cildiscan [eOE Tanner cildlecan, L. infantilem] yldo þa gyta wæs on þæra nunnena mynstre Gode gehalgodra feded. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1168 Wol ye the chyldyssh Ialousye contrefete. 1494 W. Hilton Scala Perfeccionis (de Worde) i. lxxi. sig. giii Thyse ensamples arn chyldisshe. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xlvii. 4) i. f. 183 If after the bringing of the Ark into the Temple, there had appered none other hygher truth: it had bin but as a chyldish toy to lodge vp god in that narrow lodging roome. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 40 This dwelling, wheare rests thee childish Iulus. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 162 His bigge manly voice, Turning againe toward childish trebble. View more context for this quotation a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1670 (1955) III. 564 That famed beauty (but in my opinion of a childish simple & baby face) Madamoiselle Quirreval. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 8 Nor did Esther Davis a little comfort and inspirit me to venture with her, by piquing my childish curiosity with the fine sights that were to be seen in London. 1774 J. Wright in Athenæum (1886) 10 July 56/2 The youngest has..such a sweet childish expression. 1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 205 Fantastic forms..who made up to me—to my childish eyes—the mythology of the Temple. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 2 I..feel My father's slow hand..Stroke out my childish curls. 1902 W. Cather Treasure of Far Island in S. O'Brien Willa Cather Stories (1987) 155 About a month ago I changed my apartment in New York, and as I was sorting over my traps I came across a box of childish souvenirs. 1947 Amer. Home Oct. 150/2 Childish voices in ghostlike tones squeal, croak, or whisper, ‘Trick or Treat!’ 2000 C. Calman in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 335 How much worse to be irresistible when you're six, only to watch your childish charms disappear one by one. 2. With reference to a person who is no longer a child: not befitting maturity; puerile, foolish, silly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adjective] childishc1405 indigest1423 bairnly1533 babish?1552 babished1563 babyish1646 puerilea1680 chitty1755 jejune1898 immature1902 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 32 Which nys but childissh vanytee. ?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 8 After thy childisshe chere and froward conceyt. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 88 Ar ye so moche chyldyssh that ye byleue this false and subtyl shrewe? 1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 82 I am not so childishe to take euery bushe for a monster. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. iv. 38 What cannot be auoided, 'Twere childish weakenesse to lament. View more context for this quotation 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 23 in Scepsis Scientifica The distinction..is not..so childish and impertinent as our Author would have believed. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. vii. 136 Because he does not cry out and lament himself, like those of a childish or effeminate Temper. View more context for this quotation 1779 W. Cowper Let. 31 Oct. (1979) I. 307 The childish Prattlement of Pastoral Compositions. 1795 S. T. Coleridge Conciones ad Populum Introd. Addr. 19 The childish titles of Aristocracy. 1884 Christian World 30 Oct. 831/1 Child-like faith is not necessarily childish faith. 1930 D. L. Sayers Strong Poison vi. 75 We have seen and heard nothing of her for well over fifty years. I believe she is quite childish now. 1947 T. H. White Mistress Masham's Repose iv. 30 ‘Look here,’ she said. ‘I can't indulge in childish arguments. I came on business.’ 1987 E. Dunlop House on Hill (1990) xx. 146 I started telling her what really happened, thinking she's dismiss it as a lot of childish nonsense. 2004 Cosmo Girl Aug. 95/2 With his huge grin you can tell the American Pie star takes childish glee in gross-out jokes. Compounds Chiefly appositive, parasynthetic, and similative, as childish-minded, childish-young. N.E.D. (1889) included childish-mindedness, based on an unreliable reading in the following quotation: 1624 F. Bacon Lett. (1763) 354 I love birds, as the king doth; and have some childish mindedness [1874 ed. Spedding A word which I cannot make out. Birch read it ‘mindedness’, which it cannot have been meant for] wherein we shall consent. ΚΠ c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 21 As in yowre part now be not childisshe gast. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I2^v You wil be thought More childish valourous than manly wise. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 142 I am too childish, foolish for this world. View more context for this quotation 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 83. ⁋2 Neither childish-young, nor beldam-old. 1856 T. A. Trollope Girlhood of Catherine de' Medici xi. 175 Savonarola..had preached that ‘lilies should flourish by the side of lilies;’—a puerility, which had exercised more influence on the childish-minded citizens than the profoundest wisdom would have obtained. 1896 G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties 26 Dec. (1932) II. 291 Why not have Lady Anne presented as a weak, childish-witted, mesmerized creature? 1919 School Rev. 27 10 Unassorted nature-study intensifies the childish mindedness so characterized by the disorganization of its knowledge. 2003 Times (Nexis) 22 Dec. 11 There is an important difference between these charming automata and the busy bureaucrats of Brussels. The former are there to amuse the childish minded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.OE
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