Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

teenagey

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: teenagey
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of teenagers.

Informal

Example Sentences

"My crush wore off soon enough, to be replaced by an equally teenagey devotion to the Hindi film actor, Dilip Kumar."
"[…] and I noticed she was sitting on the bluestone wall kicking off her thongs and looking all smiley and girlie, which meant pretty much for certain she was talking to Carl, who makes her act all teenagey sometimes because she's in love."
"You know how kids listen to radio and all. I never listened to radio, I didn't never get into that rock-and-roll trip. I just listened to blues. It seemed real. The other stuff seemed so tacky, teenagey. It didn't seem to have any truth in it or something."

Etymology

From teenage + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: teenage

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more teenagey (comparative) most teenagey (superlative)

Questions

What does teenagey mean?: Characteristic of teenagers.
Where does teenagey come from?: From teenage + -y.

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