twelvish

English

Etymology

From twelve +‎ -ish.

Adjective

twelvish (not comparable)

1. (informal) Of about twelve years of age.
   • 2003, Elliot Gertel, Over the Top Judaism, page 62:

     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.

   • 2005, Marie Jakober, Sons of Liberty, page 58:

     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.

   • 2010, David Tysdale, The Lost Witch:

     “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. […] ”

Noun

twelvish (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Any time close to 12 o'clock.