kiddy adj.
1. well-dressed, fashionable, flashy.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Whirligig World’in Hilaria 112: I skim o’er each phiz, / Of the sharp, flat, and blood, natty crop, kiddy quiz. | |
| Tom and Jerry I iv: I’ll send for that kiddy artist, Dicky Primefit, the dandy habit-maker, of Regent Street. | |
| Hereford Jrnl 3 Oct. 4/3: Lots of heavy wet, laid in small quantities among the kiddy grooms and swell Jarveys, depended on this event. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | My Shooting Box 83: It required all his remarkably good looks and quiet manner to redeem his attire from the charge of being kiddy at least, if not tigerish. |
2. skilful, esp. in a criminal context.
 | Settlement at Port Jackson 207: A leading distinction, which marked the convicts on their outset in the colony, was an use of what is called the flash, or kiddy language. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Tom And Jerry; Musical Extravaganza 54: Kiddy, roguish. | |
| ‘The Song of the Young Prig’ in James Catnach (1878) 171: Fine draw a coat-tail sure I can’t, / So kiddy is my famble. |
3. (also kiddie) pertaining to, or fit for children.
| Sinister Street I 103: He also learnt to speak without blushing of [...] ‘my people’ and ‘my kiddy sister’. | |
| (con. 1917–18) War Bugs 110: Our principal danger was from [...] planes skimming low over the road. One of these babies rustled through the trees and ran his kiddie car directly above our heads. | |
| World to Win 324: She knew she was knocked up, she began to ogle the cute baby togs in kiddie shoppes. | |
| Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 160: A party at which New York City’s leading debutantes [...] rode kiddie cars around a dance floor. | |
| Go, Man, Go! 63: When you gonna show up with something besides that two-wheeled kiddy car? | |
| Six-Eleven (1966) 195: Do you really like the home and kiddy bit? | |
| Listening to America 159: It really made me mad when people called the Peace Corps a ‘kiddie korps’. | |
| Choirboys (1976) 168: I just hated being a kiddy cop. | |
| Brown’s Requiem 150: To the right of the living room was a kiddie-room-sewing-room combo. | |
| Sweet La-La Land (1999) 131: Just read the idiot cards. Say a few words before the kiddie cartoons. | |
| Mr Blue 36: You’ve made a little name for yourself in those kiddy joints. This isn’t a kiddy joint. This is a prison. | |
| Guardian Weekend 4 Mar. 70: This is a kiddiewinkie-free zone, stranger. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Culture 28 May 8: There is no other British kiddy-pop group putting on a spectacle as big or colourful as this. | |
| Carnival 112: Aisha Brown, who’d played Minshall’s Queen for years – first as kiddy-carnival Queen. | |
| Viva La Madness 236: The slightest whiff of kiddie nonsense sends London criminals into a homicidal rage. | |
| Panopticon (2013) 60: I have no empathy for scum. None. I mean, I could kill a kiddie-killer. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 907: [T]hey are digging up kiddy graves for looting toys from coffin. |
In compounds
(US) a cohort of the young active in a company, government agency, etc.
| All the President’s Men 2365: Rietz had headed a ‘Kiddie Corps’ of young spies for the President. | |
| Will 206: Ken Rietz, who was running the youth program, had some sort of clandestine operation going on. That made three operations: Haldeman's, the committee's own ‘Fat Jack,’ and the Rietz kiddie corps program. |
(US prison) a low-security federal prison camp for nonviolent or first-time offenders.
| Hot House 26: Nonviolent and white-collar felons, as well as inmates in their twenties and thirties serving short prison sentences, are supposed to be sent to level-one prison camps, where they live in college-style dormitories and attend therapeutic rap sessions and drug-treatment classes [...] level-one camps are called ‘kiddie joints’ because they are considered the kindergarten of prisons. |