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  • adjective informal Characteristic of teenagers.

Etymologies

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teenager +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Entitled teenagery person: sigh, eye roll, frantic texting.

    two observations, part one: canadians are still so nice 2009

  • Bittersweet Me (alongside Wake Up Bomb and a couple of others from NAIHF and Monster) feels, how can I say it, pretty "teenagery".

    Pop Songs 07-08 2008

  • As we crossed the threshold of teenagery I lost track of Moogy, but rediscovered him in his high school incarnation as a '60s radical -- before that term was commodified -- and an amazing rock & roll singer and keyboardist.

    Michael Sigman: Moogy Klingman Passes Michael Sigman 2011

  • Perhaps all the tears over the move from New York and the adjustment to Palace Valley and missing her friends and teenagery in general had washed her beauty mark away.

    Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

  • Perhaps all the tears over the move from New York and the adjustment to Palace Valley and missing her friends and teenagery in general had washed her beauty mark away.

    Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

  • As we crossed the threshold of teenagery I lost track of Moogy, but rediscovered him in his high school incarnation as a '60s radical -- before that term was commodified -- and an amazing rock & roll singer and keyboardist.

    Michael Sigman: Moogy's Gotta Have Friends Michael Sigman 2010

  • I understand that poems written in the whiny idiom of a 15-year-old about Barbies and action figures and teenagery romance are, at their best, intended to approach seriousness through the back door.

    Anis Shivani: Is American Poetry At A Dead-End? Anis Shivani 2010

  • I understand that poems written in the whiny idiom of a 15-year-old about Barbies and action figures and teenagery romance are, at their best, intended to approach seriousness through the back door.

    Anis Shivani: Is American Poetry At A Dead-End? Anis Shivani 2010

  • The teenage daughter to whom he is step dad is being teenagery and having a fit over something minor-she is Fing at her mother.

    Upside Your Head « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • As we crossed the threshold of teenagery I lost track of Moogy, but rediscovered him in his high school incarnation as a '60s radical -- before that term was commodified -- and an amazing rock & roll singer and keyboardist.

    Michael Sigman: Moogy's Gotta Have Friends Michael Sigman 2010

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