Definition of "kinchin" []

• A child. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was -- _The kinchin will bite the bubble_ -- I pondered, and fifty times questioned -- 'Who is _the kinchin_?"
• "‘Not she—she won’t start—she swore by the salmon, 1if we did the kinchin no harm, she would never tell how the gauger got it."
• "‘Nein, nein; the kinchin got about the old man’s heart, and he gave him his own name, and bred him up in the office, and then sent him to India—I believe he would have packed him back here, but his nephew told him it would do up the free trade for many a day, if the youngster got back to Scotland."