youngsome

comparative more youngsome · superlative most youngsome

1. Seemingly young in appearance, manner, or behaviour; youthful

   And three days before he died, had she not, that youngsome witch, not gone on that dark night somewhere, and there were all those whisperings, soft steps, silences, and goings on.

   2015, Raja Rao, Collected Stories

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   We hope no literal reader will misunderstand us; for Dr. BRIGHAM's family numbers some four hundred and fifty members, and he is yet a youngsome man. All that was here to be seen, we saw ; and of much that we beheld we shall discourse hereafter.

   1847, Knickerbacker, Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 30

   […] a barbecue, as it is probable they have done in some other colleges, nor yet have our faculty adopted this mode of dress very generally for themselves, though one or two of the more youngsome members have been seen thus habited; […]

   1886, The Oberlin Review, volumes 14-15

   We pause. This newborn is half asleep, half awake, perched, docked really, atop the carriage in a comfy baby seat at table height. I ask how old he is. “Three months,” the youngsome couple says together.

   2013, Joe Wise, The Truth in Twenty ... and Then Some

   Then round about went she, the Dame of the Helmings, And to doughty and youngsome, each deal of the folk there, Gave cups of the treasure, till now it betid [sic] That to Beowulf duly the Queen the ring-dighted, […]

   2013, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Beowulf

   Synonyms: juvenile, youthsome