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Younging vs Youngin - What's the difference?

younging | youngin |

As nouns the difference between younging and youngin

is that younging is (geology) the direction in which stratigraphy becomes younger, for a particular formation while youngin is a young one: a youth, a child.

As a verb younging

is .

younging

English

Noun

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  • (geology) The direction in which stratigraphy becomes younger, for a particular formation
  • * {{quote-journal, 2001, date=May 11, Timothy M. Kusky et al., The Archean Dongwanzi Ophiolite Complex, North China Craton: 2.505-Billion-Year-Old Oceanic Crust and Mantle, Science citation
    • , passage=Where well preserved, the pillows show cuspate lower boundaries and lobate upper contacts, defining stratigraphic younging (Fig. 3 E). }}

    Verb

    (head)

    • youngin

    English

    Alternative forms

    * youngin'

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young one: a youth, a child.
  • * 1996, Mary Lee Settle, The Killing Ground [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1570031185&id=NuC208Sm3hYC&pg=PA299&lpg=PA299&sig=nrGak4rpTJXj0jA5UreToSTbyTo]
    • I swear to God, Hannah, Haley had entered that youngin in an open jumper class for children.
  • * 1998, Edwin Vickers, When the Magnolias Die & One Precious Summer [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0738800821&id=s32Rd9dPqv0C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&sig=UVy1VC-1gtxVfKI34vip1l7T1L8]
    • He is my youngin , yes he is; I raised him, I did.
  • * 1999, Silver RavenWolf, Halloween [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1567187196&id=asYSfOp1kdcC&pg=RA1-PA39&lpg=RA1-PA39&sig=OX_vV-IRIn0wqfIu5si8vYisHLE]
    • He wasn’t an unlikable fellow, no he wasn’t, but he was the sort of fella that would run from honest work faster than a youngin’ can run from bath water.
  • * 2000, Gene S Ladnier, Fame's Eternal Camping Ground [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0738808210&id=W-05dJIwk5EC&pg=PA297&lpg=PA297&sig=CT5T_3DS-GSixo_NJCONKqUShVE]
    • If I was a youngin looking for my sweetheart, I reckon I’d hook up with Barteau’s bunch and try to cut them Yankee wagons off.