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youngsome

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Youngsome (adj) means looking or seeming young in appearance or behaviour.

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Looking or seeming young in appearance or behaviour.

"And three days before he died, had she not, that youngsome witch, not gone on that dark night somewhere, and there were all those whisperings, soft steps, silences, and goings on." — Raja Rao, Collected Stories (2015)

"We pause. This newborn is half asleep, half awake, perched, docked really, atop the carriage in a comfy baby seat at table height. I ask how old he is. “Three months,” the youngsome couple says together." — Joe Wise, The Truth in Twenty ... and Then Some (2013)

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