Hello,
As far as I know, ‘childish’ is somewhat negative in its meaning compared to ‘childlike’. The former means immatuarity while the latter means innocence. But ‘glee’, which means ‘joy’, has a kind of positive meaning, I think ‘childish’ in this noun phrase can be positive: innocent or pure… something like that. On the other hand, it could mean someone with childish glee is too happy: s/he looks happy but in a foolish way. What do you think? Ah, can I use ‘childlike glee’? Does it have different meaning from ‘childish glee’?
Thank you in advance,
sweetpumpkin