preadolescence
suomi-englanti sanakirjapreadolescence englanniksi
The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about nine and eleven for girls, and ten and twelve for boys.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Bloomsbury Circus|page=270|passage=Jojo gains what Pop’s lost of his bearing. First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.