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Twelvish means (informal) Of about twelve years of age..
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/ˈtwɛlvɪʃ/ · adjective
(informal) Of about twelve years of age..
His twelvish son is introduced as a pyromaniacal, foul-mouthed shifty operator. His fourteenish daughter dresses in a manner that would be deemed inappropriately suggestive for a twenty-year-old, and has no worthy interests or social graces.
The young men were in their shirtsleeves, with their collars open, and Miss Tillie was wilting in her chair, fanned by a twelvish black girl who looked unutterably bored.
“I didn't believe it to be mere coincidence that nine years later I should happen upon a twelvish looking Carole Wood multitasking about the Monobrain Realm, tantalizingly close to a dimensional connector. […]”
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Twelvish means (informal) Of about twelve years of age..
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His twelvish son is introduced as a pyromaniacal, foul-mouthed shifty operator. His fourteenish daughter dresses in a manner that would be deemed inappropriately suggestive for a twenty-year-old, and has no worthy interests or social graces.
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