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etymology - What is the origin of the term ‘blue movie’? - English . . . There's also the term "blue laws", for laws restricting activities on the Sabbath It also has an unknown origin, although some sites guess that they were printed on blue paper (Snopes says they can't find any evidence of this)
Was man a gender-neutral word in common usage at some point? Etymonline comments: Specific sense of "adult male of the human race" (distinguished from a woman or boy) is by late Old English (c 1000); implying that "man" was used in a purely non-gendered way before then
Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children "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"
Adult children? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "Adult children" comes from "adult children of alcoholics", but now has broader reference to adults who were abused emotionally, physically or sexually in childhood
What is the word for an adult who is not mature? What term can be used for an adult, especially a man, who is in his forties and still behaves like a teenager, shunning responsibilities typical of mature people, preferring to enjoy himself?