yoof

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English

Etymology

Respelling of youth to correspond with a nonstandard pronunciation; th-fronting, in particular.

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yoof (countable and uncountable, plural yoofs)

  1. (British slang, sometimes attributive) youth (young person, young people or the state of being young)
    • 1992, New Musical Express:
      Slash'n'sideburn pop is what you get when Manc yoof grows up angry and facially bristling.
    • 1992, Punch:
      As for the yoof question, yes, there was an attempt to inject a certain spring into Mr Punch's aged step.
    • 1992, The Face:
      And London clubzine Chortler's Inc has featured a cartoon strip with a bumbling yoof TV presenter, again called Nobski.
    • 2025 January 15, James Delingpole, “The day I was heckled for speaking about the rape gangs”, in The Spectator‎:
      Free Speech was one of those slightly cringey ‘let’s make politics relevant to da yoof’ programmes

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