childhode

• childhod, childehode, childehed, childhad, child-had, childehede, childhede, childhed, chilhede, childhood, child-hede, childehoode, chyldhood, chyldhod, chyldhode, chyldhede

From Old English ċildhād; equivalent to child +‎ -hede.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃiːldhɔːd/, /ˈtʃiːldhoːd/, /ˈtʃiːldhɛːd/

childhode (uncountable)

1. The time during which one is a child; childhood.
2. Childishness; behaviour displaying juvenility.
3. An action or belief displaying stupidity or childishness.
4. (rare) The state of being someone's offspring.

• English: childhood
• Scots: childheid (obsolete)

• “chīldhōd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 June 2019.