youngfolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From young + folks.
Senses: examples: text: How perfect is her description of the gipsy-party on the village common; and of the broad shady oak in Mansfield Park, under which the youngfolks used to loiter away the Summer evening, till the approach of the thrifty and prolix Mrs. Norris, who was much addicted to unseasonable lecturing, would compel them to a precipitate departure!
ref: 1838 October, “Literary Review”, in The Ladies’ Companion, New York, N.Y., page 300, column 1:
text: Frequently the youngfolks of several families would join and come down in a wagon, drawn by a four-horse team, and stay all night at our house, and would seem to make the time pass very pleasantly.
ref: 1872, Joshua Antrim, The History of Champaign and Logan Counties, from Their First Settlement, Bellefontaine, Oh.: Press Printing Co., page 352:
text: Misses Ida Sympson, Maggie Sambrook and Master Archie Cooper and a number of youngfolks, spent Thursday, at Lettered Rock.
ref: 1902 July 4, “Livingston”, in Mount Vernon Signal, volume XV, number 41, Mount Vernon, Ky., [https://archive.org/details/xt7ghx15np96/page/n2/mode/1up page [3]], column 3:
text: Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Stutt enter­tained a crowd of youngfolks at their home last Friday night.
ref: 1910 March 11, “Paradise”, in Dick Collins, Marvin B. Smith, editors, Wise County Messenger, volume XXXI, number 10 (whole 1503), Decatur, Tex., [https://archive.org/details/decatur-wise-county-messenger-1910-03-11/page/n1/mode/1up page [2]], column 1:
text: Tap received his degree by his noble work as editor of the Youngfolks’ Corner of the Weekly.
ref: 1915, “Bachelor’s Club”, in The Cardinal, Fayetteville, Ark.: […] The Junior Class [University of Arkansas]:
text: Don’t deny the youngfolks the many tales that are written for them in book-form to stir their imagination for the bigger and better things in life.
ref: 1923 December 8, “Books for the Home”, in The Michigan Business Farmer, volume XI, number 8, Mount Clemens, Mich.: The Rural Publishing Company, Inc., page 14 (206), column 3:
text: HERE are the things—many of them very simple things—that I believe most progressive youngfolks are anxious to achieve—and that we should like to help them achieve through our “Progressive Youngfolks” department:— / 1. Youngfolks like to be proud of the home they live in.
ref: 1947 October, Earline Gandy, “Helping Rural Youth to Happy Living”, in Clarence Poe, editor, The Progressive Farmer, Carolinas-Virginia edition, volume 62, number 10, Birmingham, Ala.: The Progressive Farmer Company, page 29:
text: Later in the evening Mrs. Reidy treated the youngfolks with cookies and chocolate milk.
ref: 1957 January 3, Mrs. Marvel Neuman, “Holloway”, in The Tecumseh Herald, volume 106, number 14, Tecumseh, Mich.: F. C. & P. F. Belleville, page 5, column 5:
text: Picture is the stale tale of a pretty coed in a staid, exclusive girls’ college who nearly flunks out when she is discovered as the composer of several hit pop tunes. She’s saved from her fate during a Sun Valley vacation by a senator descendant of the school’s founder who learns he can get winning votes in his campaign by getting in with the youngfolks.
ref: 1964 November 25, “Get Yourself A College Girl (Color)”, in Variety Film Reviews, 1907–1980, volume 11 (1964–1967), New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., published 1983:
text: So often youngfolks and adults live for the “great” moments of life – the end of the term, the Friday test, the prom, graduation, love, marriage, etc. etc., that the precious everyday happenings are quite ignored.
ref: 1967, Elliott D. Landau, You and Your Child’s World, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Deseret Book Company, →LCCN, page 201:
text: I recall, one night just before Christmas one young fellow in the neighbourhood decided to take a bunch of youngfolks to the show in town — of course, it was the silent movies at that time.
ref: 1974 January 3, Crichton Harrop, quoting a Senior Citizen, “The Christmases of Madoc’s Past”, in Madoc Review, number 1, Madoc, Ont., page 5, column 9:
text: I s’pose kids will be going on to college. Maybe one day they’ll be drag assing back with a buttful of degrees and a license to dig up old Indian skulls or somethin’. Already I seen one of the youngfolks out here carryin’ one of them electric treasure finders.
ref: 1976, Ted C. Williams, The Reservation, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 233:
text: When a young couple gets married—and that’s what young couples seem to do mostly—why, the band and the bunch of well-wishers wait until they are about to spend their first night in their new house. They sneak up on them and play music and make so much racket that the youngfolks have to come downstairs and open up and serve coffee and cider and cake and like that.
ref: 1977, “Chivaree: ‘In the Evening by the Moonlight’ Side II, 4”, in Home Almanac: Featuring Mr. Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Cornet Band, Nashville, Tenn.: Spring Branch Productions:
text: The Epworth League provided the “choir” for the evening service, and according to Geneva, the youngfolks couldn’t sing very well, but most fortunately, the congregation was more concerned with enthusiasm than the carrying of a tune.
ref: 1981, James F. Lovelace, The Journey and the Centennial Years of First United Methodist Church, Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, Ariz.: First United Methodist Church Centennial Committee, page 13:
text: For the Amish-Mennonite young person, baptism, usually around age sixteen, also allows one to join the youth group or “youngfolks”—the term still used by most Amish-Mennonites to identify their single young people. / While the average American teen, even in the 1950s, might have found our youth social life dull and boring—no parties, beer, dancing, or movies—“Going with the youngfolks” was an important part of growing up. […] While the noon dinner belonged to the older guests with children, the evening meal was for the youngfolks when every fellow present was expected to have a female dining partner.
ref: 1995, Leroy Miller, “Growing Up”, in Leroy Miller, editor, compiled by Leon R. Zook, The Amish-Mennonites at Kempsville, Virginia, 1900–1970: A Collection of Stories and Photos from a Time and Place, Gone Forever, yet Living in Our Memories of a Good and Pleasant Land, Virginia Beach, Va.: The Donning Company/Publishers, →ISBN, pages 21 and 23:
text: I was always happy when noontime arrived, when religion was put aside for an hour and our feasts were spread under the trees. Then we could gorge ourselves. The youngfolks would pair off, slip away to the springhouse about a quarter-mile off, pretending to be very thirsty.
ref: 2006, Francesca Wright, “Meeting In A Brush Arbor”, in Wildwood Days, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Synonym of youngfolk.
synonyms: word: youngfolk