CHOWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WAVY) – The Chowan County Sheriff’s Office and Tri County Animal Shelter NC issued a public alert March 5 about a dangerous dog on the loose. A female adult pit bull terrier ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “Pit Bull” is not a single breed but an umbrella term that covers several distinct breeds, including the American ... Etymonline comments: Specific sense of "adult male of the human race" (distinguished from a woman or boy) is by late Old English (c.

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1000); implying that "man" was used in a purely non-gendered way before then. "Adult children" comes from "adult children of alcoholics", but now has broader reference to adults who were abused emotionally, physically or sexually in childhood. 16 The word adult appear to have derived from the Latin term adultus, meaning grown up, mature, adult, ripe. Adulterate (and its cognate adultery) is reported to derive from the Latin adulterare - to falsify, corrupt. Are the meanings and derivation of adult and adulterate, directly related, or is this just a coincidence of spelling?

Final Conclusion

"adult children" is sometimes used in contexts where age is important, such as a form requiring someone to list all children under 18 and all adult children living with them. And someone might use it to emphasise that their children have left home or aren't dependent on them. But you wouldn't introduce someone as "my adult child/ren". 4 Based on usage, hyphenation doesn't seem necessary. According to Google, "a child and adult psychologist" seems to be the most idiomatic expression referring to a psychologist specializing in both "child psychology" and "adult psychology". Your own suggestion and other suggestions in previous answers are simply not as idiomatic among ...

There is a specific term, and it keeps evading me, that refers to an adult who still embraces child-like wonder, curiosity, etc.... Not inferring a child-like or infantile adult, i.e. someone with a