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yoof

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. youth (young person, young people or the state of being young)

    • Slash'n'sideburn pop is what you get when Manc yoof grows up angry and facially bristling.
    • As for the yoof question, yes, there was an attempt to inject a certain spring into Mr Punch's aged step.
    • And London clubzine Chortler's Inc has featured a cartoon strip with a bumbling yoof TV presenter, again called Nobski.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yoof. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA