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ˈtwo-year-old, a. and n.
A. adj. Of the age of two years. Chiefly of animals, esp. colts.
1601in T. Pont's Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Cl.) 180 Item, ane twa ȝeir auld bull. c1686Depred. Clan Campbell (1816) 31 [Three] tuo year old stots. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1176 Young horses, as two-year old colts. 1835Jekyll Corr. (1894) 338 The two-year-old person on the throne of Spain. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 307/2 A three-year-old colt has his form and energies much more developed than a two-year-old one.
B. n.
a. An animal (esp. a colt) or child of two years of age. Also attrib.
1594–5Durham Wills (Surtees) II. 254, iiij kyne and their calves, and fowre two-yere oldes. a1600in T. Pont's Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Cl.) 178 Item, xiiij ȝoing beystis,..four twa ȝeir auldis and five ane ȝeir auld. c1686Depred. Clan Campbell (1816) 57 Nyne great coues, 2 tuo year olds. 1831Youatt Horse viii. 141 Is it possible to give this mouth to an early two-year-old? 1856H. H. Dixon Post & Paddock iii. 56 Two-year-old racing lays the seeds of infirmity. Ibid. iii. 79 Very few two-year-olds were then trained. 1895P. Hemingway Out of Egypt i. iv. 46 The two-year-old [child] regarded him wonderingly.
b. As the type of a youthful and energetic person.
1912Punch 19 June 470/1 Feeling as he did like a two-year-old, he was convinced that an immeasurable advantage to the country would be gained by placing the ballot in the hands of babies. 1928Galsworthy Swan Song iii. xvi. 342 Mr. Forsyte was a proper wonder—went at it like a two-year old. 1936[see stinker 6 c]. |