kiddish

English

Etymology 1

kid +‎ -ish

Adjective

kiddish (comparative more kiddish, superlative most kiddish)

1. (informal) Childish; immature.
   • 1855 March 3, Walter Savage Landor, “To a Kid”, in Pen and Pencil, lines 21–24; republished in Stephen Wheeler, editor, The Poetrical Works of Walter Savage Landor, volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937, page 194:

     So! here I find on kiddish mind / Traditionary lore instil'd. / Tho' fairly bookt, Nymph might have lookt / For poet's promise unfulfil'd.

   • 2019 June 21, Ram Madhav, quotee, “'Kiddish Temperament': Ram Madhav's Yoga Day Shot At Rahul Gandhi”, in NDTV‎^[1]:

     They can't even focus on the speech by our President. They have to go through their mobile phones, check their messages, or play video games. This kiddish temperament of unstable mind, if this needs to be controlled, you need yoga.

2. (informal) Of, like, or suitable for a child.
   • 1918, Allan Updegraff, Strayed Revellers, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 10:

     There was something kiddish about Clotilde, something especially kiddish as she strode along the winding country road, face uplifted, tinted with peach-blow color in either cheek, eyes bland and untroubled as an infant's, red lips parted over even white teeth, her whole slender body thrown, with a kind of kiddish abandon, into the business of getting ahead. "Boyish" she might have been called, not only for the clean-cut freshness of her face, but for the slimness of her hips, the unexaggerated curves of her uncorseted waist the flatness of her bosom on which the round little twin promontories were hardly noticeable when the wind threw her into momentary reliefs suggestive of the Winged Victory: "boyish" she might have been called if it be permitted to speak of a delicately-featured, prefect-complexioned, smooth-limbed boy as "girlish." Lacking this permission, the "boyish" must at once be withdrawn, and "finely girlish" substituted.

   • 2020 January 10, Ida Domingo, quoting Lauren Moore, “Missouri teen says 'Yes To' face mask burned her face”, in CBS Austin‎^[2]:

     It had caught my eye specifically because of the shiny packaging and how like kiddish it sort of looked, so I thought it might to be fun to try on.

Synonyms

• (childish, immature): infantile, puerile; see also Thesaurus:childish
• (suitable for a child): childly, juvenile; see also Thesaurus:childlike

Etymology 2

Noun

kiddish (plural kiddishes or kiddishim)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of kiddush
   • 2017, Herb Rothman, Journey to Freedom, page 142:

     Each week, the kiddish was sponsored by a different member of the congregation. This being the Sabbath before Passover, the kiddish was sponsored by Max Warberg.