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Definition: YOUNGLING |
YOUNGLINGAdjective1. Young; youthful. Noun1. A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. |
Date "YOUNGLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Crosswords: YOUNGLING |
| Etymologies containing "YOUNGLING": Youngster. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "YOUNGLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | riosh (sapling, younker), rinor (adolescent, juvenescent, youthful), këlysh (calf, cub, henchman, Ling, puppy, whelp), i ri (adolescent, fledgeling, fledgling, fresh, in mint condition, junior, juvenile, new, novel, original, red-hot, rising, stripling, teenager, teener, young, youthful), fillestar (apprentice, beginner, catechumen, departure, elementary, freshman, incipient, infantile, initial, learner, neophyte, novice, preliminary, prime, primitive, primordial, radical, recruit, rookie, tiro). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حدث (befall, calamity, come, come about, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, fall out, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngster), الصغير (little, small, whipper-snapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хлапак (loon, punk, shaver, spalpeen, urchin, yob), неопитен човек (chicken, spring chicken), животинче. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mladý (young, youthful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مبتدی (Beginner, Greenhorn, Neophyte, Novice, Tyro), جوانک (Callan, Chap, Lad, Sprig, Youngster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jeune garçon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Jüngling (lad, teenager, youngster, youth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νεαρό ζώο, νεαρό άτομο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zöldfülû (callow, coltish, greenhorn, tenderfoot, verdant), fiatal (bimbo, button, dandified young man, foal, junior clerk, juvenile, maverick, teenager, to be in the green, to be of tender age, young, youthful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cucciolo (cub, pup, puppy, whelp), bambino (babe, baby, bairn, child, infant, kid, kiddy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | younglingay rapaz (bob, boy, fellow, go-soon, guy, he, house-boy, jockey, lad, laddie, sapling, stripling, youngster), moça (backfish, colleen, female, gal, girl, lass, maid, may, peat, she, wench, young woman), jovem (boy, house-boy, juvenile, kid, lad, laddie, sapling, stripling, tender, young, youngster, youth, youthful), de ou relativo a jovem, animal novo. (various references) неопытный человек (fresh hand, green hand, greenhorn), молодой (kid, nascent, new, vernal, young, youthful). (various references) mladunče (calf), mlado dete. (various references) jovencito (stripling, youngster). (various references) yngling (boy, lad, stripling, young man, youth). (various references) юнак (adolescent, adult, juvenile, lad, shaveling, sprig, stripling, yearling, youngster, younker, youth), юний (adolescent, juvenile, young, youthful), новачок (apprentice, cub, fresher, freshman, greener, new-come, rabbit, rookie, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro, undergraduate), молоде деревце, молодик, молодий (adolescent, beardless, bread and butter, bridegroom, vernal, young, youthful, youthly), маля (baby, calf, whippet, youngster), дитина (babe, bairn, bambino, child, chit, infant, kiddy, papoose). (various references) thiếu nữ thú con, chim con. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "YOUNGLING": younglings. (additional references) | |
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"YOUNGLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Youngii. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-l-n-n-o-u-y" | |
-1 letter: lounging. | |
-2 letters: longing, lunging. | |
-3 letters: gluing, guying, loungy, luging, lungyi, noggin, ogling. | |
-4 letters: ginny, gluon, going, gunny, lingo, lingy, loggy, lungi, lying, noily, nonyl, nylon, union, yogin, young. | |
-5 letters: glug, gong, iglu, inly, ling, linn, lino, liny, lion, logy, loin, long, lung, luny, nogg, noil, noun, oily, only, ugly, yogi, yoni. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-l-n-n-o-u-y" | |
+1 letter: younglings. | |
+4 letters: encouragingly. | |
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