kidhood

English

Etymology

kid +‎ -hood

Noun

kidhood (usually uncountable, plural kidhoods)

1. (informal) childhood
   • O. Henry

     I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.

   • 2008 March 23, Ron Powers, “Penny Dreadfuls”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     It suggests how deeply the comics had implanted themselves in kidhood consciousness in only their second decade as a normative pop-cultural universe; how shocking and yet irresistible we found each new and more subversive permutation; and how recklessly indifferent to adult America’s ever hardening hostility were the wild misfit artists who, even as I buckled under Superduperman’s (and Lois’s) seditious antics, were dancing into the flames of self-destruction.