adultingn.

Brit.

/ˈadʌltɪŋ/,

/əˈdʌltɪŋ/, U.S.

/əˈdəltɪŋ/,

/ˈæˌdəltɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: adult n., adult v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < either adult n. or adult v. + -ing suffix¹.

The action or process of becoming, being, or behaving as an adult; (now) esp. the carrying out of the mundane or everyday tasks that are a necessary part of adult life. Cf. adult v.In quot. 1921 with the sense ‘the process of bringing children to maturity’.

ΚΠ

1921 J. H. Doyle Call of Educ. ii. 33 The junior high school is one of the most dangerous devices ever invented for the adulting of childhood and youth.

1989 M. Lowe Chicano Students' Perceptions Community College Experience (Ph.D. thesis, Arizona State Univ.) vii. 190 The process of adulting, according to Hudson, is ‘the management of attachment and loss, life structures and transitions’.

2018 @TinyDancerA11 17 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 28 Nov. 2018) Bills are paid. I vacuumed the hall... I think that's enough adulting for today. And tomorrow. And the day after that.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	adulting
释义	adultingn. Brit. /ˈadʌltɪŋ/, /əˈdʌltɪŋ/, U.S. /əˈdəltɪŋ/, /ˈæˌdəltɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: adult n., adult v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < either adult n. or adult v. + -ing suffix¹. The action or process of becoming, being, or behaving as an adult; (now) esp. the carrying out of the mundane or everyday tasks that are a necessary part of adult life. Cf. adult v.In quot. 1921 with the sense ‘the process of bringing children to maturity’. ΚΠ 1921 J. H. Doyle Call of Educ. ii. 33 The junior high school is one of the most dangerous devices ever invented for the adulting of childhood and youth. 1989 M. Lowe Chicano Students' Perceptions Community College Experience (Ph.D. thesis, Arizona State Univ.) vii. 190 The process of adulting, according to Hudson, is ‘the management of attachment and loss, life structures and transitions’. 2018 @TinyDancerA11 17 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 28 Nov. 2018) Bills are paid. I vacuumed the hall... I think that's enough adulting for today. And tomorrow. And the day after that. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1921
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