CHILDHOOD
ADJECTIVES
► BAIRNLY in childhood; child-like → 1603 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► TWICE-CHILDISH in one’s second childhood → 1605 obs.
NOUNS
► BAIRNHEID childhood, infancy → 1300 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
► BAIRNHOOD childhood → 1866 Sc.
► BAIRN-TIME childhood → 1830 Sc.
► BARNAGE childhood, infancy → 1325 obs.
► CAP AND FEATHER DAYS the time of childhood → 1821
► SMALL YEARS the years of early childhood → 1860
► TWICHILD one’s second childhood → 1580 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► TWICHILD one who is ‘twice a child’; an old man in his second childhood → 1580
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