youngling
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English youngling, ȝongelyng, ȝungling, from Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), from Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, from Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, *jungilingaz (“young man, youngling”). Doublet of Yngling. By surface analysis, young + -ling.
- Young; youthful.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English youngling, ȝongelyng, ȝungling, from Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), from Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, from Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, *jungilingaz (“young man, youngling”). Doublet of Yngling. By surface analysis, young + -ling.
- A young person, animal, or plant; chit.
“More dear […] than younglings to their dam.”
“He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you, as with us younglings.”