youngletn.
/ˈjʌŋlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈjəŋlᵻt/ Chiefly literary. Now rare.
= youngling n. 1b.
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the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > young animal
younglinga1300
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little one1509
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littling1721
youngster1776
younglet1850
younker1868
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joey1887
trot1895
toto1914
tyke1979
1850 P. J. Bailey Angel World 94 E'en as an eagle drops a hare Brought for her callow younglets' fare.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xxiii The angular cows [grow] into..matrons..with younglets.
1931 M. de la Roche Finch's Fortune xxvi. 338 The flight, the swooping, the crying of my [sc. a lapwing's] younglets live in your music?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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