Definition of "kinchin"
kinchin
noun
plural kinchins
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A child.
Quotations
These Kinchins, the first thing they doe is to learne how to Cant, and the onely thing they practise is to creepe in at windowes, or Celler doores.
1608, Thomas Dekker, The Bel-Man of London, published in The Guls Hornbook and The Belman of London in Two Parts, J. M. Dent & Sons, published 1905, page 103