单词 | pre-teen |
释义 | pre-teenadj.n. Originally U.S. A. adj. Of a child: not yet a teenager; aged under (esp. just under) thirteen. Of a thing: characteristic of or suited to the years (immediately) prior to a child's teens; of or relating to pre-teenagers. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to childhood childhood1600 bread and buttera1625 early1630 prepubertal1858 preschool1879 pre-intellectual1891 preadolescent1904 pre-kindergarten1912 prepuberal1913 pre-teen1929 prepubic1932 1927 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 3 Apr. 13/5 Three girls of the preteens age sat on a stone stoop, playing ‘jacks and ball’.] 1929 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Rev. 20 Apr. 2/4 A passing policeman would have thought Mattoon's entire pre-teen age was holding a frolic, judging from the whooping and laughing that emanated from city hall auditorium. 1958 Marriage & Family Living 20 401/1 The author..has worked with thousands of pre-teen and teen-age girls and boys. 1972 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 3/5 (advt.) Both for preteen sizes 6 to 14. 1985 J. P. Kelly in B. Sterling Mirrorshades (1986) 84 And his own lab was developing a cannabinol chewing gum aimed at the preteen market. 2001 Times 24 July ii. 26/1 Arnie plays a retired commando who is forced back into action after a psychotic South American dictator kidnaps his pre-teen daughter. B. n. A pre-teenager. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- 1938 Washington Post 8 May 1/2 Some day these pre-teens will be brandishing lorgnettes and wearing swallow-tail coats as the social arbiters of Washington. 1959 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 24 211/2 To add to this picture of the pre-teen and teen-ager an intense desire to gain status in the middle-class system. 1967 Atlantic Jan. 77 The texts of many popular songs are so obviously coital that one wonders how they get on the radio and are sold openly to pre-teens. 1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. vi. 260 Twelve- and thirteen-year-old boys revealed the same type of half-funny, half-pathetic misinformation about sex which practically all preteens seem to have. 1994 Today's Parent Oct. 120/2 Many mothers have been quite offended when their entire wardrobe is suddenly dismissed as ‘disgusting’ by a preteen who has recently discovered fashion. 2004 Radio Times 18 Sept. (Midlands ed.) 55/2 Still, there are enough spooky shenanigans to keep pre-teens occupied. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1929 |
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