youngth
English
Alternative forms
- yongthe, yongth (both obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English yongth, equivalent to young + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Noun
youngth (uncountable)
- (archaic) youth; the quality of being young
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, Februarie:
- Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath