semichild

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ child.

Noun

semichild (plural semichildren)

1. A person who is partly a child, or somewhat childlike.
   • 1994, Per Schelde, Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters, page 75:

     It may seem paradoxical that in a culture that considers women to be cultural outsiders, perennial semichildren, the task of enculturating the young is entrusted to women.

   • 2015 October 6, Vanessa Friedman, “At Paris Fashion Week, Flight Risk at Chanel and Saint Laurent”, in New York Times‎:

     They often seemed two sizes too big for the concave-chested semichildren within (hopefully that was a styling trick, if a distressing one, as opposed to just lazy tailoring).