childish

CEFRB2

/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/

adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
This game is very childish.
She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]

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She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]
1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 130
As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins’s voice!
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

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From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + -ish.