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YOUNGLING

Definition: YOUNGLING

YOUNGLING

Adjective

1. Young; youthful.

Noun

1. A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "YOUNGLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)


Crosswords: YOUNGLING

Etymologies containing "YOUNGLING": Youngster. (references)

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Modern Translation: YOUNGLING

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

неопытный человек (fresh hand, green hand, greenhorn), молодой (kid, nascent, new, vernal, young, youthful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mladunče (calf), mlado dete. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

jovencito (stripling, youngster). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

yngling (boy, lad, stripling, young man, youth). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thiếu nữ thú con, chim con. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: YOUNGLING

Derivations

Words beginning with "YOUNGLING": younglings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"YOUNGLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Youngii. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: YOUNGLING

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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