Meaning of youngfolks | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of youngfolk.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“How perfect is her description of the gipsy-party on the village common; and of the broad shady oak in Mansfield Park, under which the youngfolks used to loiter away the Summer evening, till the approach of the thrifty and prolix Mrs. Norris, who was much addicted to unseasonable lecturing, would compel them to a precipitate departure!”

“Frequently the youngfolks of several families would join and come down in a wagon, drawn by a four-horse team, and stay all night at our house, and would seem to make the time pass very pleasantly.”

“Misses Ida Sympson, Maggie Sambrook and Master Archie Cooper and a number of youngfolks, spent Thursday, at Lettered Rock.”

“Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Stutt enter­tained a crowd of youngfolks at their home last Friday night.”

“Tap received his degree by his noble work as editor of the Youngfolks’ Corner of the Weekly.”

“Don’t deny the youngfolks the many tales that are written for them in book-form to stir their imagination for the bigger and better things in life.”

“HERE are the things—many of them very simple things—that I believe most progressive youngfolks are anxious to achieve—and that we should like to help them achieve through our “Progressive Youngfolks” department:— / 1. Youngfolks like to be proud of the home they live in.”

“Later in the evening Mrs. Reidy treated the youngfolks with cookies and chocolate milk.”

“Picture is the stale tale of a pretty coed in a staid, exclusive girls’ college who nearly flunks out when she is discovered as the composer of several hit pop tunes. She’s saved from her fate during a Sun Valley vacation by a senator descendant of the school’s founder who learns he can get winning votes in his campaign by getting in with the youngfolks.”

“So often youngfolks and adults live for the “great” moments of life – the end of the term, the Friday test, the prom, graduation, love, marriage, etc. etc., that the precious everyday happenings are quite ignored.”

“I recall, one night just before Christmas one young fellow in the neighbourhood decided to take a bunch of youngfolks to the show in town — of course, it was the silent movies at that time.”

“I s’pose kids will be going on to college. Maybe one day they’ll be drag assing back with a buttful of degrees and a license to dig up old Indian skulls or somethin’. Already I seen one of the youngfolks out here carryin’ one of them electric treasure finders.”

“When a young couple gets married—and that’s what young couples seem to do mostly—why, the band and the bunch of well-wishers wait until they are about to spend their first night in their new house. They sneak up on them and play music and make so much racket that the youngfolks have to come downstairs and open up and serve coffee and cider and cake and like that.”

“The Epworth League provided the “choir” for the evening service, and according to Geneva, the youngfolks couldn’t sing very well, but most fortunately, the congregation was more concerned with enthusiasm than the carrying of a tune.”

“For the Amish-Mennonite young person, baptism, usually around age sixteen, also allows one to join the youth group or “youngfolks”—the term still used by most Amish-Mennonites to identify their single young people. / While the average American teen, even in the 1950s, might have found our youth social life dull and boring—no parties, beer, dancing, or movies—“Going with the youngfolks” was an important part of growing up. […] While the noon dinner belonged to the older guests with children, the evening meal was for the youngfolks when every fellow present was expected to have a female dining partner.”

“I was always happy when noontime arrived, when religion was put aside for an hour and our feasts were spread under the trees. Then we could gorge ourselves. The youngfolks would pair off, slip away to the springhouse about a quarter-mile off, pretending to be very thirsty.”

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