eighty-somethingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From eighty +‎ -something.

数詞

eightysomething

1. (colloquial) An indeterminate value between 80 (inclusive) and 90 (exclusive).

   Coordinate terms: twentysomething, thirtysomething, fortysomething, fiftysomething, sixtysomething, seventysomething, ninetysomething, hundredsomething

   • 2006, Laura Levine, The PMS Murder, page 52:

     There in the doorway stood an eightysomething Las Vegas showgirl.

名詞

eightysomething (複数形 eightysomethings)

1. (colloquial) A person between 80 and 89 years old.
   • 2011, Mark Lachs, M.D., What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older, Chapter 3:

     Instead of twentysomethings with one rare but curable disease, they find eightysomethings with many common chronic diseases that aren't curable.

   • 2012, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, page 429:

     Aunt Zena and Uncle Bill Druss are the coolest eightysomethings I know of, and I will gladly eat the early bird special or visit Sawgrass Mills with them anytime.

   She was a sprightly eightysomething.

同意語

• octogenarian; octogenary (廃れた用法)

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