different between youngin vs younging
youngin
English
Alternative forms
- youngen, youngon, young'un, youngun
Etymology
Reduced form of young one.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j???n/
Noun
youngin (plural youngins)
- (Southern US, Britain West Country, Northern England, informal) A young one: a youth, a child, a kid, young person.
- 1996, Mary Lee Settle, The Killing Ground [1]
- 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 [2]
- He is my youngin, yes he is; I raised him, I did.
- 1999, Silver RavenWolf, Halloween [3]
- 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 [4]
- 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 [1]
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
youngin From the web:
- what does youngin mean
younging
English
Noun
younging (uncountable)
- (geology) The direction in which stratigraphy becomes younger, for a particular formation
Verb
younging
- present participle of young
younging From the web:
- yungeen ace real name
- what does youngin mean
- what's the younging direction
- what rhymes with youngin
- how old is yungeen ace
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