All 3 Uses of
precocious
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- That young figure of then is seen, precociously manly, walking on a nipping morning from the old house in Clanbrassil street to the high school, his booksatchel on him bandolierwise, and in it a goodly hunk of wheaten loaf, a mother's thought.†
Chpt 14
- A fiendish libertine from his earliest years this stinking goat of Mendes gave precocious signs of infantile debauchery, recalling the cities of the plain, with a dissolute granddam.†
Chpt 15 *
- BLOOM: I was precocious.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(precocious) early development -- especially ability or maturity in a child
or more rarely:
disapproving description of a child who takes liberties usually afforded to people who are older