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twentyish, a.|ˈtwɛntɪɪʃ|
[f. twenty + -ish1.]
a. Of a person, (looking) approximately twenty years old.
b. Characteristic of the 1920s.
1928Daily Express 20 July 4 On the other hand, her blazer-clad, twentyish escort was impressed. 1940Graves & Hodge Long Week-End viii. 125 The discovery..of the unrifled tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen was given typical Twentyish publicity. Ancient Egypt suddenly became the vogue. 1975L. Dickson Radclyffe Hall at Well of Loneliness 9, I try to show her as the unique personality she was, part of a 'twentyish scene now vanished in the clearer if harsher light of our times. 1981‘J. Ross’ Dark Blue & Dangerous viii. 43 The woman..wasn't twenty-ish..or startlingly beautiful. |