Childmind

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The mind of a child.

    "Knowing how the childmind attains a certain result is worth more to a truth seeking teacher than all the tables in the Arithmetic; for having this knowledge of the childmind she is able to present such conditions and things as the mind is able to grasp and know."

  2. 2
    That aspect of one's psyche that is childlike.

    "In a healthy psyche the childmind and the adultmind interplay and assist one another. When the childmind is protected by an ennobled adultmind, the childmind is free to play, and wonder, and live in innocence."

Verb
  1. 1
    To look after children while their parents are absent.

    "In fact, he helped me childmind Thomas who at one time needed to relieve himself and was desperate for a toilet."

Synonyms

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babysitbabysit

Example

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"In fact, he helped me childmind Thomas who at one time needed to relieve himself and was desperate for a toilet."

Etymology

From child + mind.

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