grownish

comparative more grownish · superlative most grownish

1. Somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish

   She brushed past the dry blooms while she took his measure. So grown, thirteen and grownish, casually out for a stroll at three a.m.

   2000, Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones are Not My Child, page 563

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   Correcting her grownish little one's sentence structure, “We 'have' been over this, or we've been over this. I didn't raise you to speak like trash, or smoke like trash. Let me smell your breath.”

   (Can we date this quote?), Rotting Strawberries, CatuKe Monique, page 143