KIDDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kiddy mean? 

• KIDDY (noun)
  The noun KIDDY has 1 sense:

1. informal term for a young child

  Familiarity information: KIDDY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KIDDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal term for a young child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

kiddie; kiddy

Hypernyms ("kiddy" is a kind of...):

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster (a young person of either sex)

 Context examples 

And as though answering my unspoken thought, he wailed: I never ’ad no chance, not ’arf a chance! ’Oo was there to send me to school, or put tommy in my ’ungry belly, or wipe my bloody nose for me, w’en I was a kiddy? ’Oo ever did anything for me, heh? ’Oo, I s’y?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You’d ’ardly think, to look at me, that even after Mendoza fought me I was able to jump the four-foot ropes at the ring-side just as light as a little kiddy; but if I was to chuck my castor into the ring now I’d never get it till the wind blew it out again, for blow my dicky if I could climb after.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s all right for you, ’Ump. You was born a gentleman. You never knew wot it was to go ’ungry, to cry yerself asleep with yer little belly gnawin’ an’ gnawin’, like a rat inside yer. It carn’t come right. If I was President of the United Stytes to-morrer, ’ow would it fill my belly for one time w’en I was a kiddy and it went empty?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)