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teenagey

teenagey adjective: characteristic of teenagers.

Adjective

teenagey (comparative more teenagey, superlative most teenagey)

  1. (informal) Characteristic of teenagers.
    • My crush wore off soon enough, to be replaced by an equally teenagey devotion to the Hindi film actor, Dilip Kumar.1995, Yamini Krishnamurti, Renuka N. Khandekar, A passion for dance: my autobiography, page 105
    • […] and I noticed she was sitting on the bluestone wall kicking off her thongs and looking all smiley and girlie, which meant pretty much for certain she was talking to Carl, who makes her act all teenagey sometimes because she's in love.2008, Marion Roberts, Sunny Side Up, page 18

Forms of teenagey

comparativemore teenagey
superlativemost teenagey

Origin of teenagey

From teenage + -y.

Questions about teenagey

What does teenagey mean?
Teenagey means characteristic of teenagers.
What part of speech is teenagey?
Teenagey is an adjective.

Words near teenagey in the dictionary

  1. teenagerly
  2. teenagers
  3. teenagership
  4. teenagery
  5. teenagese
  6. teenagey
  7. teenaper
  8. teenapers
  9. teend
  10. teended
  11. teending

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