A childish gesture in Japanese culture, made by pulling a lower eyelid down to expose the red underneath.

Joni hunched one shoulder, a childish gesture, but he ignored it and waited for her to say something.

She stuck her tongue out at him, aware of how absurd the childish gesture was, but she couldn't help it.

She knew it was a common, childish gesture but it made her feel better.

Lyla whispered, knuckles to teeth in a childish gesture of apprehension.

In a childish gesture she pushed the lock and propped the desk chair against the door.

Here are men joking like schoolboys about the death of thousands, using childish gestures to show how it worked.

And that childish gesture had cost him protection from the weather.

If you ask me, it was a very childish gesture.

What a childish gesture, in spite of being kind and well meant!