youngling
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 9
Definition of youngling
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- (archaic)Young; youthful.
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adj
- (archaic)Young; youthful.
noun
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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.”
“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.”
“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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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.
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