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kinchin, kinchen noun a baby, a child: They've got the three kinchins, Wee Betsy, Rachel and the baby, Nancy. la16-. Compare kenchin etymology: perhaps a development from German kindchen ‘a small child’; also collected by EMcC/PS; form kinchen attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; attested by JS, BS in TDITA, SS and ET note:

Canadian, Paul Pope (2013), cites the form kinchin as ‘a daughter’