sixteenern.
/sɪkˈstiːnə/ 1. One of a body of persons sixteen in number.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > sixteen > one of sixteen
sixteener1801
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > of specific number > member of
sixteener1801
1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 12 574 On the decease of one sixteener or alderman, the remainder filled up the vacancy.
2. A youth of sixteen.
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the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun]
frumberdlingc1000
young manOE
childc1225
hind1297
pagec1300
youtha1325
fawnc1369
swainc1386
stripling1398
boy1440
springaldc1450
jovencel1490
younkera1522
speara1529
gorrel1530
lad1535
hobbledehoy1540
cockerel1547
waga1556
spring1559
loonc1560
hensure1568
youngster1577
imp1578
pigsney1581
cocklinga1586
demy1589
muchacho1591
shaver1592
snipper-snappera1593
callant1597
spaught1598
stubble boy1598
ghillie1603
codling1612
cuba1616
skippera1616
man-boy1637
sprig1646
callow1651
halflang1660
stubbed boy1683
gossoon1684
gilpie1718
stirraha1722
young lion1792
halfling1794
pubescent1795
young man1810
sixteener1824
señorito1843
tad1845
boysie1846
shaveling1854
ephebe1880
boychick1921
lightie1946
young blood1967
studmuffin1986
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 41 For Joe is a less boy than many of his companions, some of whom are fifteeners and sixteeners.
1966 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 7/6 The world's biggest organization of young motor-cyclists..launched a petition against the sixteener ban.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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