youngish

young /jʌŋ/ adj (-nger /-ŋgǝ(r)/; -ngest /-ŋgÇst/ )

၁။ ငယ်ရွယ် သော။ ပျိုနုသော။ a young woman/ animal/ tree/ nation ❍ Are you younger or older than me? Compare OLD ၂
၂။ နုပျိုသော။ a young forty-year-old ❍ He's sixty but he's very young in his outlook.
၃။ နုသော။ My daughter's thirteen but she's young for her age. သမီးလေးက ၁၃နှစ်ရှိပေမည့် လည်း ခုထိကလေးလိုပဲ။
၄။ ငယ်ရွယ်သော။ နုသော။ young love/ ambition/fashion ❍ Those clothes she's wearing are much too young for her.
၅။ လူငယ်။ the Young Conservatives ❍ Young Farmers' clubs.
၆။ (က) the younger (fml) အငယ်။ the younger Pitt ❍ Pitt the younger. Compare ELDER¹၂ (ခ) (infml becoming dated ) … ၏သား။ Young Jones is just like his father.
၇။ မောင်ရင်။ သူငယ်မ။ Now listen to me, young man/lady/woman!
၈။ (rhet ) (ညဉ့်) မနက်သေးသော။ The night is still young.
n [pl]
၁။ အကောင်ပေါက်များ။ (တိရစ္ဆာန်) ပေါက်စများ။ The female bird feeds its young until they leave the nest.
၂။ လူငယ်လူရွယ်။ a film that appeals specially to the young.
❏ not as/so young as one used to be/as one (once) was [IDM] ငယ်တုန်းကလို မဟုတ်တော့ ဘူး။ I can't play squash twice a week—I'm not as young as I was, you know!
❏ not getting any younger [IDM] အသက်ကြီးလာပြီ။ အရွယ်ထောက်လာပြီ။ The long walk to the shops tires me out—I'm not getting any younger, you know.
❏ young and old (a like)[IDM] ကြီးငယ်မဟူ။ အားလုံး။ This is a book for young and old (alike).
❏ young at heart [IDM] စိတ်ပျိုသော။
❏ youngish /'jʌŋÇʃ/ adj တော်တော်ငယ်သော။ a youngish President.
❏ youngster /-stǝ(r)/ n ကလေး။ လူငယ်။ ချာတိတ်။ She's still only a youngster.