| 单词 | the awkward age |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe awkward age c. the awkward age: the time of life when one is no longer a child and yet not properly grown up. (Cf. French l'âge ingrat.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > adolescent > adolescence or puberty pubertyc1384 adolescence?a1425 adolescency?a1475 in one's teens1596 pubes1637 pubescency1658 pubescence1822 teenhood1845 hog age1848 the awkward age1895 prepubescence1908 prepuberty1922 teenagery1950 teenagedness1952 jean-age1959 1895 Windsor Mag. 1 705/1 She was..at what ladies call ‘the awkward age’. 1928 Daily Mirror 7 Dec. 11/2 ‘How old are you, Bobbie?’ ‘I'm just at the awkward age.’ ‘What do you call the awkward age?’ ‘I'm too old to cry and too young to swear.’ < as lemmas |
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