Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

younghead

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: young-head
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Younghood, youth.

Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

A young person; a teenager.

Slang

Example Sentences

"I know I'm too much of a younghead to have seen all the famous shows, but jeez..."
"For the youngheads out there, the HipHopHeads, the ones still reppin' they block no matter what, the ones rejecting stereotypes of the hood as pure pathology, the ones not marketing the hood for white-rebellious-fantasies-of-bein'-down, the ones still street-conscious even when you ain't in the streets: beware, don't let the literati get you caught up."
"So their latest antic was to grab a couple of their younghead, throw them in a car, drive them to the Philly airport, and drop them off there, forcing them to walk about three hours from the airport back to Myers playground."

Etymology

From Middle English yonghede, ȝonghede, equivalent to young + -head.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: yonghede
Suffix: young

Usage

Inflected Forms

younghede (alternative) youngheads (plural) young head (alternative)

Antonyms

oldhead

Questions

What does younghead mean?: Younghood, youth.
Where does younghead come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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