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Young- (yu-), a. (-er, -est, pr. -ngg-) & n. (only in collect, sing.). Not far advanced in life or growth or development, of recent birth or origin or formation, not yet old, still vigorous, immature, youthful, inexperienced, (ay. child, man, animal, plant, nation, institution ; a y. family, of y. children ; a y. person, servants' phr. for unknown y. woman of lower classes ; the y. person, those whose innocence must be shielded from the indecent in talk & literature ; y. people, esp. the marriageable ; my &c. y. man or woman, sweetheart; the night, year, cen- tury, is yet y., still near its beginning ; old head on y. shoulders ; y. & old ; you y. rascal &c, usu. in playful address to child ; a y. man in a hurry, esp. ardent reformer ; y. for his years ; men are now y. at fifty ; an old man but a y. convert ; y. blood 1 ; younger son, esp. member of noble family poor owing to primo- geniture; y. things, often indulgently &c. of persons ; is y. in crime, unpractised ; y. Jones, esp. Jones the son ; y. hin, youngster, often as voc: in my y. days, while I was y.; y. love, ambition, &c, felt in or characteristic of youth; the younger before or after name of person to be distinguished from another, as the younger Pitt, Teniersthe younger ', sothey. pretender; y. England, Ireland, Italy, Turks, &c., esp. as names of political parties claiming to speak for the rising generation ; youngers somet. as n. pi. opp. elders, as is kind to his youngers). Hence you,ng,iSH1(2) a., you'ngxiNG1 n. (poet.). (N.) offspring esp. of animals before or soon after birth (with y., pregnant; cares for, deserts, its y.). [Aryan; OE geong, Du. jong, Gjung, W ieuanc, Ljtwenis, Skr. yuvan]
出处：The concise Oxford dictionary of current English 1919
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