youngling

comparative more youngling · superlative most youngling

1. archaicYoung; youthful.

   Synonyms: baby-faced, juvenile, hebetic, young, youngly, youngsome, youngthly, youthful

plural younglings

1. A young person, animal, or plant; chit.

   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.

   3 more examples

   More dear […] than younglings to their dam.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52

   He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you, as with us younglings.

   1556, Nicholas Ridley, conference with Hugh Latimer

   No eagle-child have I seen being taught to fly by its parents. That is why younglings will not open their wings until driven by hunger.

   1927, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, E.P. Dutton & Co., page 43

   Synonyms: child