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  • adjective informal childhood

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kid +‎ -hood

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Examples

  • I was barely out of kidhood when I covered the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, so Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III - son of the assassinated politician Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. and his wife, the recently deceased former president Corazon "Cory" Aquino - was just a boy when I was there (Lets not get started on the Filipino nickname thing; one of his sisters is Ballsy).

    Phil Bronstein: Ninoy, Noynoy, No-No. 2010

  • Written as a series of fun case-studies of grown-ups who won't grow up (a woman who attained brief fame by skipping everywhere she went, a man who tried unsuccessfully to get his son to play with his Star Wars action figures) in some way or another, Rejuvenile is a thoroughly affectionate look at the breaking down of the barriers between adulthood and kidhood.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • I don't have any more Durango Kid movies recorded, which is probably just as well, but it was fun to revisit my kidhood for a few hours with these.

    Archive 2007-12-09 Bill Crider 2007

  • She was an important part of the soundtrack of my kidhood.

    Archive 2007-10-14 Bill Crider 2007

  • I felt small and pale and stupid and very unwanted, which wasnt a new feeling for me since kidhood, even though Id outgrown the small part.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I don't have any more Durango Kid movies recorded, which is probably just as well, but it was fun to revisit my kidhood for a few hours with these.

    Both Barrels Blazing Bill Crider 2007

  • These were the B-movies of my kidhood, and I loved every minute of them, especially Ms. De Carlo.

    Archive 2007-01-07 Bill Crider 2007

  • I felt small and pale and stupid and very unwanted, which wasnt a new feeling for me since kidhood, even though Id outgrown the small part.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • She was an important part of the soundtrack of my kidhood.

    Teresa Brewer R. I. P. Bill Crider 2007

  • I felt small and pale and stupid and very unwanted, which wasnt a new feeling for me since kidhood, even though Id outgrown the small part.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

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