Kids Resources. The Kids.gov: Official Kidâs Portal for the U.S. Government. Find links to government and other kidsâ sites. The National Civil Rights Museum Virtual Tour: Civil rights movement from Brown is Board of Education of Topeka to current events such as The Struggle continues.
verb (used without object), whinnied, whinnying. 1. to utter the characteristic cry of a horse; neigh. verb (used with object), whinnied, whinnying. 2. to express by whinnying. noun, plural whinnies.
If you act immature or bratty, you're being childish. A childish dinner guest might pout because you didn't make dessert. While the adjective childish is sometimes used to simply mean like a child, it's more common to use childlike in this way. When your teacher comments that your chattering during class is childish behavior, she means that you're acting as juvenile as a four year old child. This negative implication has been attached to childish since the 15th century. The word comes from the Old English cildisc, proper to a child..