young'un

Related to young'un: Unequitable, inexistent

young·'un

 (yŭng′ən)
n. Informal
A young one; a child.
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A SAFE HAVEN: "As a young'un, I was shy, conflicted, and lacked confidence," Linton admits.
Take a chance, live, and enjoy life as the young'un you are, and never lose that child in you.
Cool your jets about getting the piercing, young'un. Unfortunately, yo mama still has the right to make and enforce the lion's share of the rules.
When I was a young'un growing up in Booger Bottom, shooting any branched antler buck was a trophy, but today 160- to 180-inch deer get tagged ever year, and once in a great while even bigger bucks get loaded into trucks.
As this young'un proved, once again, there otherwise ain't nothing good that comes from flying outside the envelope.
And, via surrealist free association, that reminds me of Herbert Marcuse's response, at the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall, to a question by yet another eager young'un along the lines of: So, what is to be done?
The issue recently came up at Raleigh's News & Observer when editors--to the dismay of some--deemed it appropriate to go with the vernacular, as in "They was good friends" and "They killed my young'un for slam nothing." As experts from print, radio and online media outlets explained to AJR, it's not always an easy decision to make.
One of them, a young'un, is definitely alive, but half-buried at the mine entrance."
I wanted to "start" a young'un, which means teaching it the things it needs to know in order to be ridden.
InfiNet is parting company with two on-line properties -- its service-marked Cool Site of the Day and a relative young'un, the entertainment-driven Live Online, which features a juke box and music reviews, and pointers to RealAudio content and radio stations on the Web -- rather than continue to generate content for them.