young'un
Americannoun
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young'uns
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of young'un
Contraction of young one
Example Sentences
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“I think it’s more about a young’un not really having an appreciation for murals.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
As for the other, she’ll do anything she can to humiliate her spinster daughter before others if she thinks it will hold the young’un in her thrall.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2013
Quickly, a word about Bouchra Jarrar, who shows during couture: she’s a real talent, no nonsense, a young’un with good judgment and something worthwhile to offer.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2011
The young’un, Robert, who do the yard ever two weeks, I guess he go fore he come over.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Now stay in your pit, my gamey young'un, and thank heaven if you ever come out of it alive.'
From The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
Mallard ducks and Canada geese have long made the reflecting pool home and paraded their young’uns through it in the spring and summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
“I said, ‘I got no money to build a house with all them young’uns and a wife.’”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2021
In concert, those higher concerns receded to the background as college kids — and some young’uns with chaperoning parents — got rowdy and rapped along as the second-story floor heaved under their bouncing weight.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2019
Parents must authenticate kids’ accounts before young’uns can begin using it.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2017
Grandma and the other young’uns were all right, but they’d lost everything.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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