adultescent การใช้

• Adultescent came of age in 2004, but only as a word.
• The seemingly opposite " adultescent " is " a middle-aged person whose clothes, interests and activities are typically associated with youth culture ."
• The editors of the Webster's New World College Dictionary chose adultescent as word of the year; they said there were enough examples to constitute a " Peter Pandemic ."
• That was the year an article in the magazine Precision Marketing referred to the " adultescent marketplace, " the earliest citation discovered by Paul McFedries, the author of the wordspy . com Web site.
• There are 4 million Americans between 25 and 34 still living with their parents, not always happily, as the apartments . com Web site discovered last year when it offered $ 10, 000 for the best essay from an adultescent desperate for money to get his or her own place.