kinchin

kinchin means A child.

Etymology

From German Kindchen, diminutive of Kind, from Middle High German kint, from Old High German kind, from Proto-Germanic *kindą, *kinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth”).

noun

A child.e.g.“A kynchen co is a young boye, traden vp to suche peuishe purposes as you haue harde of other young ympes before, that when he growth vnto yeres, he is better to hang then to drawe.” — 1567, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:

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