A young person of either sex.
A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
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Examples for "child "
Examples for "child "
1 Social workers prepare to investigate a record number of child abuse cases.
2 Others limit provision to families in crisis referred by child protection services.
3 When a child experiences violence at home, they learn to tolerate violence.
4 The government is moving to set child poverty reduction targets into law.
5 Opposition parties and child welfare groups blamed the Government for this situation.
1 I shook his hand and said, 'Goodbye, Charlie.' 'Goodbye, kid , ' he says.
2 It didn't have the new age, albeit familiar sound of good kid .
3 I was just a kid ; I didn't question why he was home.
4 It's as easy as losin' your kid 's child support money in Vegas.
5 He was also just a good mannerable kid -youknow, raised right.
1 The victim suffered minor injuries, New York Police Sergeant John Buthorn said.
2 That said; there's a propensity to underestimate a temporary or minor problem.
3 However, they may also point to minor myocardial injury in other circumstances.
4 They thought it was important enough to override minor political constraints-theirwords.
5 However, it said it expects eventual losses to production to be minor .
1 The message is clear: Nunavut is not the place for small fry .
2 Season and slice red fish; roll in flour and fry until brown.
3 Dip in milk then in seasoned flour, and fry in hot fat.
4 Dip in egg, roll in crumbs and fry in smoking hot fat.
5 Roll the cleaned fish in seasoned flour and fry in deep fat.
1 The youngster took the note, and with much labor read the following:--
2 Darvo is a child's name, the youngster said; then he suddenly flushed.
3 And it's producing great music in the form of youngster Iwan B.
4 He answered in the affirmative, and a youngster stepped into the room.
5 The driver of the car would probably have dodged the youngster anyway.
1 In it was a glass globe, nestling in fine grey tissue paper.
2 She found Susan in the bed and nestling comfortably into the pillows.
3 She was nestling up to him in a trustful sort of way.
4 And so the leaf stopped sighing, but went on nestling and singing.
5 Half-way up was a large wooden building, nestling in a grassy cove.
1 The man groaned and said the young shaver had done for him.
2 I'll get a tidy reward for taking you back, my young shaver .
3 You wouldn't like to see the shaver starting off for India, Nellie?
4 He sold that business off to return to the electric shaver .
5 The shaver was actually a scanning device used to detect bugs.
1 And then a young man always knows when he can tyke advantage.
2 Back then, he was a wee tyke , barely into the double digits.
3 Weel, there was a bit tyke i' the kirkyaird twa days syne.
4 If it does, then the little tyke usually can get a drink.
5 Why, 'e'd fire on a nurse or an ambulanche, that tyke would.
1 Gravely he dismissed the hypothesis of Stevie being a drunken young nipper .
2 He lurched around sightlessly, still swinging and thrusting out his nipper stick.
3 You should have heard that nipper say ''Arf a mo', old un!'
4 Rat's meal! Spitefully he retaliated by deliberately using his nipper stick.
5 One veteran nipper , Brian Thorne, told me, Everyone has a skill.
1 The Sun is enormous, but compared to some stars it's a tiddler
2 Garcia practically sprints up and whacks his tiddler in without ceremony.
3 If it comes up easily it's an empty half shell or a tiddler .
4 They would do well to keep watching another tiddler : Finland.
5 Oh yes, that'll be about right, it's Sergio missing a tiddler birdie chance at 10.
1 The message is clear: Nunavut is not the place for small fry .
2 Oh, of course it isn't practical to bother about the small fry .
3 The small fry , startled out of caution, were tittering in hysterical excitement.
4 This small fry I take to be the top of their fishery.
5 But the small fry , such as you, will not get a shilling.
1 I don't tike you going with a stranger, under the circumstances.
2 Just set one gentleman down, and 'appy to tike another up.
3 First, he didn't need a couple of wise-ass kids tike us ruining his business.
4 But you should learn to tike the larger view.
5 Tom remembered seeing those green walls forming around him, flying together tike pieces of clouds.
6 Why, such a tarnal cross tike you never saw!
7 The bouquet is made out of archival paper and will last forever, jus tike our love.
8 A move tike that'll work only on someone with no training, and the heathens do train.
9 Diantha held her mother in her arms the night she came, and cried tike a baby.
10 Step up and tike a look for yerself.
11 There, tike it, and go to sleep.
12 He murmured incoherently, sank again into a stupor, to rouse once more and babble tike a madman.
13 Set down, do, an' tike things easy.
14 The funniest tike , that youngster of mine!
15 I'll tike charge o' this one.
16 Noisy little good-for-nothing tike , - ai n't you , Fret?
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