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youngon

youngon is the alternative form of youngin.

Meaning of youngin

Noun

youngin (plural youngins)

  1. (Northern England, Southern US, UK, West-Country, informal) A young one: a youth, a child, a kid, young person.
    • I swear to God, Hannah, Haley had entered that youngin in an open jumper class for children.1996, Mary Lee Settle, The Killing Ground http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1570031185&id=NuC208Sm3hYC&pg=PA299&lpg=PA299&sig=nrGak4rpTJXj0jA5UreToSTbyTo

Forms of youngon

pluralyoungons

Questions about youngon

What is youngon the alternative form of?
Youngon is the alternative form of youngin.

Words near youngon in the dictionary

  1. youngman
  2. Youngmans
  3. youngmen
  4. youngness
  5. youngnesses
  6. youngon
  7. youngons
  8. Youngquist
  9. Youngquists
  10. Youngren
  11. Youngrens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: youngon (page history and authors); youngin (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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