teenagern.
/ˈtiːnˌeɪdʒə/, U.S. /ˈtiˌneɪdʒər/ Originally U.S.
A person who is in his or her teens; (more generally) an adolescent. Also in extended use.In early use the word seems to have been used particularly in connection with churches.
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1913 Every Evening Commerc. (Wilmington, Delaware) 19 Sept. 5/4 County Sunday-Schools...Some of the best practical workers among ‘Teen Agers’ will be present and speak.
1935 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 2 July 8/3 A practical demonstration of the work done by the teen-agers.
1956 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 798 The 1820's, when the colony was just a teen-ager.
1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You xxii. 260 Instead of having been a teenager all she had managed to do was spend a certain amount of time getting from the age of twelve to the age of twenty.
2015 Radio Times 22 Aug. (South/West ed.) 107/1 For wayward teenager Carl..it will be a time of surprises and sexual awakening.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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