young'un
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of young'un
Contraction of young one
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“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
He told me that during all those years the Lawsons lived over at Millers Crossing, Ward sent for him every time a young'un was born and never paid him a dime.
From Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! by Smith, Jewell Ellen
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
