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youngun

youngun is the alternative spelling of young'un.

Meaning of young'un

Noun

young'un (plural young'uns)

  1. (Northern England, Southern US, UK, West-Country, informal, African-American Vernacular) Child.
    • "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31

Forms of youngun

pluralyounguns

Questions about youngun

What is youngun the alternative spelling of?
Youngun is the alternative spelling of young'un.

Words near youngun in the dictionary

  1. Youngstrom
  2. Youngstroms
  3. youngth
  4. youngthly
  5. Youngtown
  6. youngun
  7. younguns
  8. Younis
  9. younker
  10. younkers
  11. Younkin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: youngun (page history and authors); young'un (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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