youthly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From youth + -ly, possibly continuing Old English ġeoguþlīċ (through Middle English *youthely), but more likely a new formation.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
youthly (comparative more youthly, superlative most youthly)
- (archaic) Youthful.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto xi:
- he hath left his plumes all hoary gray, / And deckt himselfe with feathers youthly gay […] .
Synonyms[edit]
- juvenile, youthsome; See also Thesaurus:young
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