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- noun informal An
adult whoseinterests andactivities arecharacteristic of those ofchildren .
Etymologies
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Examples
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NOXEN: Well it's really important to point out here that's the common sort of stereotype of the rejuvenile, which is this guy, you know the 40-year-old virgin who is too busy playing with action figures to get his life together.
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A new form of adult has evolved, which may be called a rejuvenile, a kidalt, an adultescent, or a twixter.
Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-up by Christopher Noxon ricklibrarian 2006
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NOXON: Well it's really important to point out here that's the common sort of stereotype of the rejuvenile, which is this guy, you know the 40-year-old virgin who is too busy playing with action figures to get his life together.
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A new form of adult has evolved, which may be called a rejuvenile, a kidalt, an adultescent, or a twixter.
Archive 2006-12-01 ricklibrarian 2006
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He tracks the early history of the "rejuvenile" movement back to Lord Baden-Powell's pitch to potential Scout-masters to become "boy-men" in the woods with their young charges, through boomer entitlement, and to a new generation who, driven by a mad housing market and a lunatic job-market, find themselves holding off on kids and marriage through their thirties.
Boing Boing 2007
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New words can be reflexively annoying - one blogger made the inevitable comparison between "rejuvenile" and words like "metrosexual" and "bobo," which he called "endemic marketing speak we love to hate."
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In that same vein, "rejuvenile" appears in promotional literature for Thai surgical practices that specialize in sex change procedures.
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Bangkok-based Dr. Chettawut Tulayaphanich will perform "facial rejuvenile surgery" to help our trans-gendered friends lift, tuck and stretch their way to more feminine selves.
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Cons: I found Noxon's profiles, interviews, and presentation of the rejuvenile culture more interesting than his analysis of it.
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I am in some ways a rejuvenile, still captivated by the art and music of my youth.
Archive 2006-11-01 ricklibrarian 2006
whichbe commented on the word rejuvenile
"With academia watching and marketers salivating, rejuveniles (or kidults or adultescents) are showing that aging and growing up aren’t the same anymore." (From Double-Tongued Dictionary)
June 9, 2008