ADOLESCENCE, ADOLESCENT
ADJECTIVES
► ADOLENT adolescent, growing → 1420 obs.
► HALFLING adolescent, youthful, half-grown → 1815 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HALF-LONG adolescent, half-grown → 1805 Sc.
► UNLICKED aggressively adolescent, uncouth → 1958 sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► HOG-AGE male adolescence; the awkward, ill-mannered age between boyhood and manhood → 1848 Amer. dial.
► UP-COMING adolescence → 1898 Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
► BACKFISCH a girl in late adolescence, a teenager; a girl of about 16 or 17 → 1888
► BIMBETTE an adolescent girl or young woman, esp. one regarded as sexually attractive but thought to lack intelligence or distinctive personality → 1982 sl., derogatory
► BOBBY-SOCKER ► BOBBY-SOXER an adolescent girl → 1940 US sl.
► HALFLING an adolescent youth a half-grown boy; often applied to a lad engaged in farm work → 1794 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HIBBER DE HOY an adolescent boy, esp. a hooligan → 1992 UK sl.
► PUBES adolescent girls → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► SPRINGER an adolescent, a youth → 1825 Eng. dial.
► SPUNKER a derisive term for an adolescent boy; used by adolescent girls → 1997 UK sl.
► YOUNGERN ► YOUNGIN ► YOUNG ONE ► YOUNG ‘UN an adolescent or child → 1832 Amer. dial.
► YOUNG MAN an adolescent or young adult male; one in early manhood → 1122
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