youngling

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English

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”); equivalent to young +‎ -ling. Doublet of Yngling.

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Adjective

youngling (comparative more youngling, superlative most youngling)

  1. (archaic) Young; youthful.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:young

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Noun

youngling (plural younglings)

  1. A young person, animal, or plant; chit.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:
      More dear […] than younglings to their dam.
    • 1556, Nicholas Ridley, conference with Hugh Latimer:
      He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you, as with us younglings.
    • 2005 May 19, George Lucas, “Star Wars: Episode III ”, “Revenge of the Sith”, Lucasfilm
      Obi-Wan Kenobi: I have seen a security hologram of him...killing younglings.

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