teenaged

See also: teen-aged

English

Etymology

From teen +‎ aged.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒd/

Adjective

teenaged (not comparable)

  1. Aged between thirteen and nineteen inclusive; teenage
    a teenaged girl
    • 1999 August 26, Buddy Seigal, “Even Old Englishmen Still Get Wood”, in OC Weekly, retrieved 16 June 2009:
      Dexter's vocals are competent enough: his timbre is thin and eternally teenaged, but he can go apeshit on the hiccupy histrionics like no one's business.
    • 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 67:
      In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.

Usage notes

  • The more common term is teenage.

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