twelvish

alternative twelveish

1. informalnot comparableOf about twelve years of age.

   The young men were in their shirtsleeves, with their collars open, and Miss Tillie was wilting in her chair, fanned by a twelvish black girl who looked unutterably bored.

   2005, Marie Jakober, Sons of Liberty, page 58

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   His twelvish son is introduced as a pyromaniacal, foul-mouthed shifty operator. His fourteenish daughter dresses in a manner that would be deemed inappropriately suggestive for a twenty-year-old, and has no worthy interests or social graces.

   2003, Elliot Gertel, Over the Top Judaism, page 62

   “I didn't believe it to be mere coincidence that nine years later I should happen upon a twelvish looking Carole Wood multitasking about the Monobrain Realm, tantalizingly close to a dimensional connector. […]”

   2010, David Tysdale, The Lost Witch

alternative twelveish

1. colloquialuncountableAny time close to 12 o'clock.