Etymology

yoof

Y4O1O1F4

Today it means: youth (young person, young people or the state of being young) Full definition →

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The story

Respelling of youth to correspond with a nonstandard pronunciation; th-fronting, in particular.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.