Definition of "yoong" [yoong]

• Archaic, chiefly Scottish spelling of young (adjective)

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• "The sayd olde Senex, when he saw any proper and valiant yoong man, he would admit him into his paradise."
• "It is accounted a great grace for the men of that countrey to haue long nailes vpon their fingers, and especially vpon their thumbes which nailes they may fold about their hands: but the grace and beauty of their women is to haue small and slender feet: and therefore the mothers when their daughters are yoong, do binde vp their feet, that they may not grow great."
• "The sayd cry made, each one were obedient for a day or twaine, howbeit a yoong Rhodian left his posterne and went to his house, which on the next day was hanged for breaking of the lordes commaundement."