kidsy
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kidsy (comparative more kidsy, superlative most kidsy)
- (informal) Designed for or primarily aimed at children.
- 1996 February 1, Mary E. Henry, Mary E. Gardiner, Parent-School Collaboration: Feminist Organizational Structures and School Leadership, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 88:
- The elementary school has multiple opportunities for parents to do something tangible, for example “making materials, helping to put the activities together, the physical assistance, whereas in middle school they don't do all the charts and the bulletin boards and the kidsy activities” (Interview, teacher).
- 2009 June 4, Cathy Cassidy, Shine On, Daizy Star, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
- On a pinboard filled with cute, kidsy designs, mine is dark, dangerous and downright scary. I have drawn a shipwrecked boat, with dark waves crashing around it. Pirates are swinging on to the wreck, waving their swords about.
- 2010 July, Kevin Stein, Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 66:
- The pumpkins appeared cute in a kidsy way. I seemed suddenly too old for that. My feet skid-kissed loose gravel as I ran serpentine through wet alleys, certain I was headed first to jail, then to hell. Gill never got his chance.
- 2014 December 23, J.S. Morin, A Smuggler's Conscience: Mission 2, Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN:
- “[…] How about one of those kidsy adventure shorts?” Roddy rolled his eyes. Tossing the remote to a startled Esper, who juggled it before grabbing hold, he slipped down from the couch. “Knock yourselves out. I'll go find some work to do.”
- 2021 September 13, Ameko Kaeruda, Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness Volume 1, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
- And yet her interest in kidsy picture books hadn't abated either. Just looking at her read always put a spring in my step.