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pubescent
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But insiders say the clean-up is really aimed at booting scores of barely pubescent , panhandling road-warrior wannabes from the Avenue. ▪ Her voice had the pubescent innocence of a junior high school majorette. ▪ I had ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pubescent \Pu*bes"cent\, a. [L. pubescens, -entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent.] Arrived at puberty. That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, a back-formation from pubescence , or else from French pubescent (early 16c.) or directly from Latin pubescentem (nominative pubescens ), present participle of pubescere "to reach puberty" (see pubescence ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature; "the budding breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of pubescent boy" covered with fine soft ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Arriving, or arrived at, puberty. n. An individual who is going through puberty.
Usage examples of pubescent.
His mustache had not grown in fully, like the mustache of a pubescent boy, yet lines of stress tiered his brow and his eyes seemed worn, like dark coins from which the symbols of the realm had been effaced.
One pubescent boy spat at Apolline, who promptly spat back with impressive accuracy.
Glory days on the football pitch, playground misdemeanours, resultant beltings from teachers, pubescent sexual innnuendo and juvenile pugilism.
Shall we point out other aspects of her lithesome figure, poking out and in and curving provocatively and cathartically under the dreamy creamy silk of her dress surely a prototype of pubescent perfection?
For feathers he used soft, pubescent cottonweed leaves, running them through the nocks where he’d split the ends.
Bands of marauding seven-year-olds were braving the fierce snow to harass weary homegoing widows on Flatbush Avenue, and boys armed with needle torches were gleefully cutting the bars on the lion cages in Prospect Park Zoo, and rival gangs of barely pubescent prostitutes, bare-thighed in gaudy thermal undershifts and aluminium coronets, were holding their vicious nightly territorial face-offs at Grand Army Plaza.
If only, she ruminated tiredly, it would turn out to be as easy as convincing her newly pubescent daughter to drop the unsuitable and whimsically inappropriate forename Fitzwinkle.
Their plump pubescent breasts were shining with cow fat and red clay, and their buttocks were bare and round and joggled with each disappointed pace as Aboli sent them away.
She very carefully kept her eyes averted from the man in a backless breechcloth and then had to look away again from a pubescent girl who was topless.
Now and then I took advantage of the acquaintances I had formed among social workers and psychotherapists to visit in their company various institutions, such as orphanages and reform schools, where pale pubescent girls with matted eyelashes could be stared at in perfect impunity remindful of that granted one in dreams.