toddlerhood

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English

WOTD – 1 June 2022

Etymology

From toddler +‎ -hood (suffix forming nouns denoting conditions or states of being).[1]

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Noun

toddlerhood (usually uncountable, plural toddlerhoods)

  1. (countable) The period of one's life in which one is a toddler (“a young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old”).
    Synonym: toddlerdom
    We’ve been friends ever since toddlerhood.
    • 1937, E Joyce Partridge et al., The Management of Early Infancy, London: C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel, →OCLC, page 25:
      [T]he stage at which mother showed herself to her infant in her true colours was whilst breast feeding was still going on, and any difficulties that belonged to toddlerhood had their roots reaching back to this stage.
    • 2014 December 20, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 April 2021:
      And, like most boring mothers, I fret about schools. Where I grew up, everyone went to the nearest village primary school and the local comprehensive. But here, since the earliest days of Isobel’s toddlerhood, my friends and acquaintances have been engaged in an arms race.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being a toddler.

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  1. ^ “toddlerhood, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “toddlerhood, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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