2. Adjective. (informal) Childlike. ¹
3. Adjective. Typical of a kid (''i.e.'', a juvenile goat); haedine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kidlike
1. resembling a child [adj] - See also: child
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidlike
Literary usage of Kidlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Not fifty yards upstream, a swollen dead goat was bobbing up and down in the
water in a ghastly parody on kidlike skittishness, and green filth was cast ..."
2. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"Off come his shoes or clogs, displaying his white kidlike stockings with the
separated big toe. ..."
3. Notes on Dental Metallurgy: For the Use of Dental Students and Practitioners by Walter Bruce Hepburn (1922)
"Annealing renders them cohesive, but they never reach the kidlike softness of
most of the pure golds. In foil form they are admirably suited for making ..."
4. From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"... a ghastly parody on kidlike skittishness, and green filth was cast ashore by
every little wave. Was there anything more to see ? ..."
5. Through the Shadows with O. Henry by Al Jennings (1921)
"kidlike I had a notion that Jim Stanton had watched and approved. But we did not
go back to 101. We hid in chaparral patches in the day, traveling nights ..."
6. Groton School Verses, 1886-1903 by William Amory Gardner (1904)
"When Fifth Formers are kidlike, or kids act like sages, And Sixth, Fourth, and
First make a mix of their ages, A handful at most learns of what's going on, ..."
7. Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po by Richard Francis Burton (1863)
"... sewn up in kidlike mortuary-skin, and beat it to pieces, not knowing that its
value was at least $50. But my limits warn me that it is time to refer the ..."
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