semichild

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ child

Noun

semichild (plural semichildren)

  1. A person who is partly a child, or somewhat childlike.
    • 1994, Per Schelde, Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters, page 75:
      It may seem paradoxical that in a culture that considers women to be cultural outsiders, perennial semichildren, the task of enculturating the young is entrusted to women.
    • 2015 October 6, Vanessa Friedman, “At Paris Fashion Week, Flight Risk at Chanel and Saint Laurent”, in New York Times‎:
      They often seemed two sizes too big for the concave-chested semichildren within (hopefully that was a styling trick, if a distressing one, as opposed to just lazy tailoring).
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