Noun

(head)

The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.

* {{quote-journal, year=1914

, author=Amherst College , title=Amherst graduates' quarterly , volume=4 , page=6 , passage=Our readers — and contributors — are apt to elect a good deal according to years. The seventies and eighties, we may suppose, are concerned for the large educational and cultural interests of their Alma Mater; the nineties are deep in the practical and business activities; the noughties are not naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest. }}

* 1919, Harry Hamilton Johnston, The Gay-Dombeys: A Novel , Macmillan, page 172,

He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the 'eighties, 'nineties , and 'oughts.

The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.

Noun

(ninesies)

A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where nine actions must be performed.

* 2004 , Anne Tyler, The amateur marriage (page 282)

He saw Lindy playing jacks on the sidewalk in Front of the store, snatching up ninesies and tensies in a heedless, all-out swoop that kept the backs of her lingers perpetually scraped raw.