Did you possibly mean one of these? juvenile, rejuvenate
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. informal An adult whose interests and activities are characteristic of those of children.
Etymologies
- re- + juvenile. Compare rejuvenate. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A new form of adult has evolved, which may be called a rejuvenile, a kidalt, an adultescent, or a twixter.”
“NOXON: Well it's really important to point out here that's the common sort of stereotype of the rejuvenile, which is this guy, you know the 40-year-old virgin who is too busy playing with action figures to get his life together.”
“NOXEN: Well it's really important to point out here that's the common sort of stereotype of the rejuvenile, which is this guy, you know the 40-year-old virgin who is too busy playing with action figures to get his life together.”
“He tracks the early history of the "rejuvenile" movement back to Lord Baden-Powell's pitch to potential Scout-masters to become "boy-men" in the woods with their young charges, through boomer entitlement, and to a new generation who, driven by a mad housing market and a lunatic job-market, find themselves holding off on kids and marriage through their thirties.”
“New words can be reflexively annoying - one blogger made the inevitable comparison between "rejuvenile" and words like "metrosexual" and "bobo," which he called "endemic marketing speak we love to hate.”
“In that same vein, "rejuvenile" appears in promotional literature for Thai surgical practices that specialize in sex change procedures.”
“Bangkok-based Dr. Chettawut Tulayaphanich will perform "facial rejuvenile surgery" to help our trans-gendered friends lift, tuck and stretch their way to more feminine selves.”
“Cons: I found Noxon's profiles, interviews, and presentation of the rejuvenile culture more interesting than his analysis of it.”
“I am in some ways a rejuvenile, still captivated by the art and music of my youth.”
“NOXON: Well a rejuvenile, the working definition is anyone who has tastes or mindsets that are traditionally associated with people younger than themselves.”
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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Panaceaseless
Various concepts that might surround The Fountain of Youth.
yearling, revirescent, juvenescent, neanimorphism, horapthia, voice lift, paedomorphism, shunamitism, torschlusspanik, roborant, rejuvenation, ageless and 63 more...
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whichbe "With academia watching and marketers salivating, rejuveniles (or kidults or adultescents) are showing that aging and growing up aren’t the same anymore." (From Double-Tongued Dictionary) Jun 9, 2008