yong

See also: Yong, yóng, yòng, yōng, and yǒng

English

Adjective

yong (comparative yonger, superlative yongest)

1. Obsolete spelling of young.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature H, verso:

     I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole,
     As vnder priuiledge of age to bragge,
     What I haue done being yong, or what would doe,
     Were I not old, […]

   • 1608 (edition), Simon Patericke (translator), Innocent Gentillet (author), A DISCOVRSE VPON THE MEANES OF WEL GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD PEACE, A KINGDOME, OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE, pages 238 and 250:

     caused the yong king

     […]

     knowing also many yong Romane gentlemen

See also

• yong bell
• yong tau foo

Anagrams

• -gony, gyno, gyno-

Mandarin

Romanization

yong

1. Nonstandard spelling of yōng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yóng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of yǒng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of yòng.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• yonge, yongge, young, younge, yung, yunge, iunge, yoing, yeng, yenge, ying, yinge, yyng, ynge, yhong, yhonge, yhung, yhyng, ȝohng, ȝeing, ȝhong, ȝong, ȝonge, ȝoung, ȝounge, ȝung, ȝunge, ȝungge, ȝeng, ȝenge, ȝing, ȝinge, ȝyng, ȝynge, ȝyonge, ȝonke, ȝoyng, ȝeonge, ȝuinge, ȝeunge, ȝiung, gunge, ging, ginge, jung

Etymology

From Old English ġeong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /junɡ/, [juŋɡ]

Adjective

yong (comparative yongere, superlative yongeste)

1. Early in growth or life; young.
2. Characteristic of a young person; youthful.
3. (figurative) Innocent.
4. Having little experience; inexperienced, unpractised.
5. Being the younger of two people of the same name, usually related; junior.
6. At an early stage of existence or development.
7. (of meat) Tender.

Antonyms

• olde

Derived terms

• yongly
• yong mone
• yong sonne

Descendants

• English: young
• Scots: young

References

• “yong, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 June 2018.