teenage

Etymology 1

From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.

adj

  1. Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
    Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.

Etymology 2

table From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (“suffix forming abstract nouns”). First attested circa 1700.

noun

  1. (obsolete, chiefly Kent dialect) Brushwood for fences and hedges.

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