youngish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English

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adj

"In spite of his youngish appearance, he had much experience."
"By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country."
"And our young – well, youngish, since the male cast is now 90% Adam’s apple – heroes have to stop him."

Etymology tree English young Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English youngish From young + -ish.

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