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puri-teen

puri-teen is the alternative form of puriteen.

Meaning of puriteen

Noun

puriteen (plural puriteens)

  1. (Internet, derogatory) A teenager or young adult (especially an LGBTQ or LGBTQ-supportive member of Gen Z) whose views on sexuality are seen as sex-negative or moralistic.
    • “Sorry to all the puriteens who will never know the unfettered joy of taking your top off inside the Stonewall Inn,” said one prominent activist on Twitter. “I hope you never know the pain of being beaten by a cop for standing up for queer rights.”2021 June 14, EJ Dickson, “Are Sex-Negative ‘Puriteens’ Actually Taking Over the Internet?”, in Rolling Stone

Forms of puri-teen

pluralpuri-teens

Questions about puri-teen

What is puri-teen the alternative form of?
Puri-teen is the alternative form of puriteen.

Words near puri-teen in the dictionary

  1. purging places
  2. purgingly
  3. purgings
  4. Purgitsville
  5. puri
  6. puri-teen
  7. puri-teens
  8. purie
  9. puries
  10. Purif
  11. purifactory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puri-teen (page history and authors); puriteen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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