The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word TWEENAGER
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More clues leading to the result TWEENAGER
- Anger about chasing cute adolescent
- One of Shakespeare’s sisters put up with precious pre-adolescent
- Youngster went, eager to have a change of direction
- Precocious child even engaged in tense bet
- In Paris to swim with pretty youth
- Earliest of talents, ‘Little Princess’, growing up?
- Possibly a ten-year-old Shetland pony in the middle of Amsterdam
- Greet a new, properly disciplined youngster
- Youngster terribly dainty getting to trouble important lady
- Pre-adolescent child, affectedly quaint, developed anger
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What does TWEENAGER mean?
TWEENAGER noun- A young person who is not yet technically a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one: generally eight to twelve years old.