| Back | kinchin /kin-chin/ |
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| Front | noun A child. [Derived from the German kindchen, kinchin is a diminutive form of kind meaning "child." Kindchen entered the lexicon in the last decade of the 1600s.] "He's naught but a kinchin, no bigger than a sparrow." - Joan Aiken, The Whispering Mountain |
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