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Teenage vs Tweenage - What's the difference?

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Teenage is a related term of tweenage.


As adjectives the difference between teenage and tweenage

is that teenage is of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old while tweenage is not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one.

As a noun teenage

is brushwood for fences and hedges.

teenage

English

Etymology 1

First attested circa 1700: teen (Kentish variant of tine: “enclose within a wattle fence”) (suffix forming abstract nouns).

Noun

(-)
  • Brushwood for fences and hedges.
    • Synonyms
    * (l)
    References
    * “ ?teenage n.''¹]” defined as a derived term of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50248204 teen, ''v.''²]”, listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1921: .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
    • Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
    Derived terms
    * (l) English terms with multiple etymologies

    tweenage

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 11, author=Charles Isherwood, title=A Prayerful Three-Pointer From the Orchestra Pit, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=What began as a mere made-for-television movie (on the Disney Channel, yet) has grown quickly into an international phenomenon both commercial and spiritual, at least for tweenage youngsters (mostly girls). }}

    Related terms

    * teenage * tweenager