This week's theme: newly coined words. adultescent (uh-duhl-TES-uhnt) noun
An adult whose activities and interests are typically associated with youth culture. [Blend of adult and adolescent. The term was first noticed in 1996 in a trade publication called Precision Marketing. Marketers love to come up with new ways to slice their demographics. Another such term is tween: http://wordsmith.org/words/tween.html ] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "In the stupidly named Failure to Launch (a box office joke waiting to happen, surely?), Matthew McConaughey plays a bachelor in his 30s who still lives at home -- an adultescent, if you will." So Many Choices, So Little Time; New Zealand Herald; Apr 10, 2006. Sponsors' Messages: Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=m7r Subscribe to http://delanceyplace.com -- a carefully selected non-fiction book excerpt free to your email each day. It's the thinking person's daily quotation. ............................................................................ We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there -- lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910) Share the magic of words. Send a gift sub: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Remove, change, or subscribe address: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/adultescent.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/adultescent.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/adultescent.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
