Meaning

1 senses

  1. (attributive, often, slang)A child.

    The kiddie pool was shallow so the children would be safe, which meant it was much warmer than the adult pool.

    C. S. Lewis first made kiddie lit a respectable field of study.

    Kleinchen, Kindchen, Kiddie

    informal term for a young child

Examples

3 sentences

  1. I don't listen to that kiddie shit.

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  2. The battery store is kiddie corner from the mall.

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  3. Kenny, Aaron, and Paul are so rowdy in the kiddie pool that they can never avoid having water splash out.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
a child (hypocorism):

Origin

From kid + -ie.

From kid + -ie.

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Forms

plural: kiddies
Singularkiddie
Pluralkiddies

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • informal term for a young child:kiddy

Word family

9 related words
Derivedkiddie carkiddie cocktailkiddie flickkiddie landkiddie poolkiddie ridekiddie tablekiddie taxskiddie

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kickbackkickboxingkidA1kiddokidnapkidnapper

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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