youngin
English
Alternative forms
- youngen, youngun, youngon
Etymology
Reduced form of young one.
Noun
youngin (plural youngins)
- A young one: a youth, a child, a kid, young person.
- 1996, Mary Lee Settle, The Killing Ground
- I swear to God, Hannah, Haley had entered that youngin in an open jumper class for children.
- 1998, Edwin Vickers, When the Magnolias Die & One Precious Summer
- He is my youngin, yes he is; I raised him, I did.
- 1999, Silver RavenWolf, Halloween
- He wasn’t an unlikable fellow, no he wasn’t, but he was the sort of fella that would run from honest work faster than a youngin’ can run from bath water.
- 2000, Gene S Ladnier, Fame's Eternal Camping Ground
- If I was a youngin looking for my sweetheart, I reckon I’d hook up with Barteau’s bunch and try to cut them Yankee wagons off.
- 2018 "Sardine: The Movie" Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: The Series
- Youngins, no respect for sammiches these days!
- 1996, Mary Lee Settle, The Killing Ground
References
- http://johnscabin.com/slang/Y.html
- 2012, Chelsea Falin: The Southern Dictionary, page 96
- Tom E. Terrill, Jerrold Hirsch: Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties. UNC Press, 1987. →ISBN, page 123 (usage example)
See also
- young'un