younglingn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈjəŋlɪŋ/

Forms: see young adj. and n.¹ and -ling suffix¹; also Old English geongligum (dative plural, probably transmission error), Old English iunclicgum (dative plural, probably transmission error), Old English iunling, late Old English iunglingles (accusative plural, transmission error), early Middle English ȝunling, early Middle English wunglinge (transmission error), Middle English ȝounling, late Middle English ȝonlyng; also Scottish 1800s younklin', 1900s– younklin.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian jungeling , jongeling , Old Dutch jungilink (Middle Dutch jongelinc , Dutch jongeling ), Old Saxon jungling (Middle Low German jüngelinc ), Old High German jungiling , jungling (Middle High German jungelinc , German Jüngling ) < the Germanic base of young adj. and n.¹ + the Germanic base of -ling suffix¹.Compare (apparently after West Germanic models) Old Icelandic ynglingr (late and rare; compare Icelandic unglingur), Swedish yngling, Old Danish unggeling (compare Danish yngling).

A. n.

a. A young person (variously, depending on context, a young adult, youth, or child); a youngster. Now chiefly archaic, literary, or humorous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > [noun]

youngeOE

younglingOE

girlc1300

youtha1325

young onec1384

birdc1405

young person1438

young blood1557

primrosea1568

slip1582

juvenal1598

quat1607

airling1611

egga1616

saplinga1616

chita1657

a slip of a girla1660

juvenile1733

young adult1762

boots1806

snip1838

spring chicken1857

yob1859

kid1884

chiseller1922

juvenile adult1926

YA1974

yoof1986

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. xii. 89 Us utgangendum com ongean sum iungling mid fiðerum swiðe fægerre gesihðe [OE Corpus Cambr. sum geong swyðe fægerre gesihþe man, L. pulchrae uisionis iuuenis].

c1200 ( West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Hatton) xviii. 2 Þa clypede se hælend enne geongling [OE Corpus Cambr. lytling, L. parvulum] & sette on heora midlen.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14312 Siȝen toward hirede ȝeonglinges [c1300 Otho ȝonglenges] snelle.

c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 705 Floriz was so fair ȝongling, And Blauncheflur so suete þing.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 165 Dido..went oute of Phenicia wiþ a grete companye of ȝonglynges i-chose.

1482 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 9 Comes yonglens and presents in Rich. Costrell's hands..vjs. xd.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xiii. 155 O douchty ȝingling [L. puer].

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 345 He is but an yonglyng, A stalworthy stryplyng.

1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 95 This vertuous youngling..made hir hearing deafe vnto his sugred talke.

1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes G 3 Like as a yongling that to schoole is set, (Scarce weaned from his dandling mothers tet).

1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 977 Men-Children, most horribly defiled; younglings snatched out of their Parents arms.

1779 S. Johnson Let. 16 Oct. (1992) III. 188 You say nothing of the Younglings, I hope they are not spoiled with the pleasures of Brighthelmston, a dangerous place, we were told, for children.

1837 T. Hood in Mem. (1860) I. 280 Little Tom is a capital traveller,..our trouble was less than might have been expected with such a youngling.

1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd i. 65 The smooth-lipped youngling's kiss.

1917 W. Owen Let. 13 Dec. (1967) 516 The ‘A 4's’ of the Battalion, that is the tender younglings.

1977 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Petals of Blood ii. vi. 120 Only the feeble in age and the younglings were exempt from the common labour.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 15 Sept. 189/1 The curtain rises on a quartet of spoiled younglings in tennis whites.

b. A young animal; an animal's young or offspring.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > young animal

younglinga1300

fawn1481

little one1509

rascal1530

littling1721

youngster1776

younglet1850

younker1868

subadult1885

joey1887

trot1895

toto1914

tyke1979

a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 486 Ðanne remen he alle a rem..; For here mikle reming Rennande cumeð a ȝungling.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxxi. 18 Y am lerned as a ȝungling vntamed.

1534 tr. Erasmus Bellum Erasmi f. 8^v The wylde beastis are not cruell for euery cause: but..when they fere leste their yonglynges shuld take any harme or be stollen from them.

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 51^v This druncke in lyke quantitie..expelleth the youngling deade.

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E3 Be like the fielde of Beares, When they defend their younglings in their Caues.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. vi. 116 The parturition or very birth it selfe: wherein not only the Dam, but the younglings play their parts.

1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 308/1 If any Native or Cottager sold a Male youngling after it was weaned, he was to give 4^d. to the Lord.

1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World (1773) i. iii. 39 The linnet..was bringing out her younglings to their first imperfect flight.

1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 125 A lovely Youngling white as foam.

1883 Cent. Mag. 26 487/1 If rain should come on,..the mother calls her younglings under her wings.

1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xi. 131 Presently both birds quieted down and the youngling rejoined its mother.

1990 R. Bly Iron John iii. 66 The mother hawk pushes the younglings out of the nest one day.

2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People i. 26 The thirty-odd adults and younglings in the herd spattered like water on a waxed floor, bawling and shrieking in terror.

c. A young plant, a sapling; a young shoot or blossom of a plant. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > young or immature plant(s)

planteina1400

youngling1559

plantling1766

yearling1789

immaturity1849

the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun]

sproteeOE

wiseOE

spronkOE

wrideOE

brodc1175

wanda1300

breerc1320

scion?c1335

spraya1387

spriga1398

springa1400

sprouta1400

spiringc1400

shoota1450

youngling1559

forth-growing1562

spirk1565

sprouting1578

surcle1578

chive1583

chit1601

spurt1601

sprit1622

germen1628

spurge1630

spirt1634

brairding1637

springet1640

set1658

shrubble1674

underling1688

sobolesa1722

branchlet1731

springlet1749

sproutling1749

sprang1847

shootlet1889

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 382 The yonglinges or shoutes of bremble [L. turionum rubi].

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 10 Each having a white wicker over brimm'd With April's tender younglings.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Coliseum in Ess. (1840) I. 174 The shattered masses of precipitous ruin, overgrown with the younglings of the forest.

2012 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 70 In fact, looking into the snap peas, I see there are plenty of younglings still.

d. Something which has recently been created, introduced, etc., or which is (relatively) new or fresh. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1744 P. Skelton Candid Reader Ded. p. iv It is humbly hoped this little Youngling of mine..will meet with the like kind of Reception from Thee.

1812 J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 116 He recommended me to publish. England I have looked to as the proper sphere in which to bring my youngling out.

1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest ix A grassy vale..Where..a pure stream ran, as yet A youngling.

2011 Hutchinson (Kansas) News (Nexis) 10 Apr. Ash Valley isn't an old town, by any means. Compare it to the likes of Kansas settlement, and most would consider it a youngling.

†2. A young or new scholar or student, a disciple; a beginner, a novice; a person who is unpractised or inexperienced (usually with implication of actual youth). Cf. young adj. 5a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner

younglingOE

new-comeOE

novice1340

ginner?c1400

beginner1470

apprentice1489

prentice1489

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freshmana1557

intrant1560

enterer1565

puny?1570

weakling1575

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incipient1589

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abecedary1596

neophyte1600

abecedarian1603

bachelor1604

novelist?1608

alphabetary1611

breeching boy1611

tiro1611

alphabetarian1614

principiant1619

unexperienced1622

velvet head1631

undergraduatea1659

young stager1664

greenhorn1672

battledore boy1693

youngster1706

tironist1716

novitiatea1734

recruit1749

griffin1793

initiate1811

Johnny Newcome1815

Johnny Raw1823

griff1829

plebe1833

Johnny-come-lately1839

new chum1851

blanc-bec1853

fledgling1856

rookie1868

elementarian1876

tenderfoot1881

shorthorn1888

new kid1894

cheechako1897

ring-neck1898

Johnny1901

rook1902

fresh meat1908

malihini1914

initiand1915

stooge1930

intakea1943

cub1966

OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 3 Iungum mannum gedafenað, þæt hi leornion sumne wisdom and ðam ealdum gedafenað, þæt hi tæcon sum gerad heora iunglingum.

a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 237 Þis is si fierðe lage; An þisser were..efter ures helendes upstiȝe to heuene þa apostles and hare iunglenges.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 387 He seiþ þat Chadde was a ȝongelyng, and lerned the rule of monkes in Hibernia.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. To Rdr. sig. B vj^v Younglynges in the feith.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 34 b Whose weapons of fire..doo..terrifie..yonglings and nouices of warre.

1652 I. Ambrose Media (ed. 2) x. 277 Let our Lord Jesus his tender-heartedness in Spiritual younglings, teach us mercy.

1682 Heraclitus Ridens 25 July 1/1 From the Seminary there a small Detachment was made of Yonglings that were got as far as Asserit A, negat E.

B. adj. (attributive).

1. That is a youngling; young, youthful; (also) †inexperienced (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > novice or beginner

younglinga1250

novice1530

freshmanly1568

elementary1601

neophyte1601

initiatea1616

novitious1619

abecedarian1633

tironizinga1660

novitial1778

neophytic1856

neophytish1897

rookie1902

tironic1909

Sears-Roebuck1917

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > young (of beings)

littleeOE

youngOE

younglyOE

younglinga1250

little waxena1325

greena1398

imperfecta1398

primec1429

unold?1440

juvync1450

novelc1450

unaged1486

in youth's flowers?1507

unbearded1560

unweaned1581

whelpish1586

ungrown1593

under-age1594

unhatched1601

infantine1603

springalda1614

unbakeda1616

unlickeda1616

juvenile1625

lile1633

juvenal1638

bloomy1651

youngish1667

blooming1676

puerilea1680

youngerly1742

steerish1789

chota1814

white-shoe1960

a1250 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Titus) (1981) l. 385 (MED) Her is a meiden ȝungling [c1225 Bodl. ȝunglich] of ȝeres ah se swiðe witti & wis on hise wordes.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Judges xviii. 3 Knowyng þe voice of þe ȝonglyng leuyte.

?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. sig. C.vi^v That which the Apostle sayth to be well done (sayth Sanders) these youngling diuines call vnprofitable.

1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile Ep. Ded. sig. A 2 Fier to my hart, & wings to my youngling Muse.

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. sig. I2^v The delicacies of a youngling Princesse.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 15 The youngling Spiders (that were either hatching, or newly hatch'd).

1750 False Honour 10 Can Honour fill a Father's Place, Support and rear a youngling Race?

1786 R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night xviii, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 151 The youngling Cottagers retire to rest.

1800 W. Wordsworth Idle Shepherd-boys 6 The mountain raven's youngling brood.

1880 L. Morris Ode of Life 45 Since Artemis first trod the youngling earth.

1926 Rotarian July 51/2 Only we have forgotten, by the time their hatching day arrives, that once we had the characteristics of the youngling bird.

2013 Daily Rec. (Baltimore, Maryland) (Nexis) 13 Feb. As they went down the hallway, Deputy Bragunier saw numerous little youngling marijuana plants.

2. Relating to or characteristic of a youngling; (sometimes) spec. juvenile, naive.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > relating to or intended for youth

youthlyc900

youthful1561

youngthly1579

younkerly1579

youngling1582

juvenile1661

junior1860

1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue To Rdr. sig. A 4 Idle toyes proceedinge from a youngling frenzie.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 77 To thee (young youth) these youngling lines I write.

1748 Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis sig. Aa^v He shall my youngling footsteps lead Thro' tufted lawn and fringed mead.

1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 185 Are ye not smitten by a youngling arm?

1869 J. K. Casey Rising of Moon 43 Telling now this chilling story I now grasp your youngling hand.

1901 C. G. D. Roberts in Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Apr. 166 That youngling winsomeness which is the heritage, to some degree and at some period, of the infancy of all the kindreds that breathe upon the earth.

1996 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 3 July 16 It would be wrong to conclude, however, that I am opposed to games. My youngling days were packed with them.

†3. poetic. Designating the time of year when an animal's young are born or reared. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relating to

genitala1382

generative?a1425

genitivea1500

procreatory1576

seminal1605

procreanta1616

younglinga1627

genitable1634

genial1652

spermatic1669

testiculatory1693

reproductive1746

generational1764

reproductory1831

genesial1848

a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkkk^v/2 You have built a nest That will stand all stormes,..and one day it may be The youngling season too, then I hope You'le ne'er fly out of sight.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	youngling
释义	younglingn.adj. Brit. /ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈjəŋlɪŋ/ Forms: see young adj. and n.¹ and -ling suffix¹; also Old English geongligum (dative plural, probably transmission error), Old English iunclicgum (dative plural, probably transmission error), Old English iunling, late Old English iunglingles (accusative plural, transmission error), early Middle English ȝunling, early Middle English wunglinge (transmission error), Middle English ȝounling, late Middle English ȝonlyng; also Scottish 1800s younklin', 1900s– younklin. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian jungeling , jongeling , Old Dutch jungilink (Middle Dutch jongelinc , Dutch jongeling ), Old Saxon jungling (Middle Low German jüngelinc ), Old High German jungiling , jungling (Middle High German jungelinc , German Jüngling ) < the Germanic base of young adj. and n.¹ + the Germanic base of -ling suffix¹.Compare (apparently after West Germanic models) Old Icelandic ynglingr (late and rare; compare Icelandic unglingur), Swedish yngling, Old Danish unggeling (compare Danish yngling). A. n. 1. a. A young person (variously, depending on context, a young adult, youth, or child); a youngster. Now chiefly archaic, literary, or humorous. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] youngeOE younglingOE girlc1300 youtha1325 young onec1384 birdc1405 young person1438 young blood1557 primrosea1568 slip1582 juvenal1598 quat1607 airling1611 egga1616 saplinga1616 chita1657 a slip of a girla1660 juvenile1733 young adult1762 boots1806 snip1838 spring chicken1857 yob1859 kid1884 chiseller1922 juvenile adult1926 YA1974 yoof1986 OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. xii. 89 Us utgangendum com ongean sum iungling mid fiðerum swiðe fægerre gesihðe [OE Corpus Cambr. sum geong swyðe fægerre gesihþe man, L. pulchrae uisionis iuuenis]. c1200 ( West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Hatton) xviii. 2 Þa clypede se hælend enne geongling [OE Corpus Cambr. lytling, L. parvulum] & sette on heora midlen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14312 Siȝen toward hirede ȝeonglinges [c1300 Otho ȝonglenges] snelle. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 705 Floriz was so fair ȝongling, And Blauncheflur so suete þing. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 165 Dido..went oute of Phenicia wiþ a grete companye of ȝonglynges i-chose. 1482 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 9 Comes yonglens and presents in Rich. Costrell's hands..vjs. xd. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xiii. 155 O douchty ȝingling [L. puer]. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 345 He is but an yonglyng, A stalworthy stryplyng. 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 95 This vertuous youngling..made hir hearing deafe vnto his sugred talke. 1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes G 3 Like as a yongling that to schoole is set, (Scarce weaned from his dandling mothers tet). 1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 977 Men-Children, most horribly defiled; younglings snatched out of their Parents arms. 1779 S. Johnson Let. 16 Oct. (1992) III. 188 You say nothing of the Younglings, I hope they are not spoiled with the pleasures of Brighthelmston, a dangerous place, we were told, for children. 1837 T. Hood in Mem. (1860) I. 280 Little Tom is a capital traveller,..our trouble was less than might have been expected with such a youngling. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd i. 65 The smooth-lipped youngling's kiss. 1917 W. Owen Let. 13 Dec. (1967) 516 The ‘A 4's’ of the Battalion, that is the tender younglings. 1977 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Petals of Blood ii. vi. 120 Only the feeble in age and the younglings were exempt from the common labour. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 15 Sept. 189/1 The curtain rises on a quartet of spoiled younglings in tennis whites. b. A young animal; an animal's young or offspring. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > young animal younglinga1300 fawn1481 little one1509 rascal1530 littling1721 youngster1776 younglet1850 younker1868 subadult1885 joey1887 trot1895 toto1914 tyke1979 a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 486 Ðanne remen he alle a rem..; For here mikle reming Rennande cumeð a ȝungling. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxxi. 18 Y am lerned as a ȝungling vntamed. 1534 tr. Erasmus Bellum Erasmi f. 8^v The wylde beastis are not cruell for euery cause: but..when they fere leste their yonglynges shuld take any harme or be stollen from them. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 51^v This druncke in lyke quantitie..expelleth the youngling deade. 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E3 Be like the fielde of Beares, When they defend their younglings in their Caues. View more context for this quotation 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. vi. 116 The parturition or very birth it selfe: wherein not only the Dam, but the younglings play their parts. View more context for this quotation 1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 308/1 If any Native or Cottager sold a Male youngling after it was weaned, he was to give 4^d. to the Lord. 1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World (1773) i. iii. 39 The linnet..was bringing out her younglings to their first imperfect flight. 1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 125 A lovely Youngling white as foam. 1883 Cent. Mag. 26 487/1 If rain should come on,..the mother calls her younglings under her wings. 1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xi. 131 Presently both birds quieted down and the youngling rejoined its mother. 1990 R. Bly Iron John iii. 66 The mother hawk pushes the younglings out of the nest one day. 2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People i. 26 The thirty-odd adults and younglings in the herd spattered like water on a waxed floor, bawling and shrieking in terror. c. A young plant, a sapling; a young shoot or blossom of a plant. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > young or immature plant(s) planteina1400 youngling1559 plantling1766 yearling1789 immaturity1849 the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] sproteeOE wiseOE spronkOE wrideOE brodc1175 wanda1300 breerc1320 scion?c1335 spraya1387 spriga1398 springa1400 sprouta1400 spiringc1400 shoota1450 youngling1559 forth-growing1562 spirk1565 sprouting1578 surcle1578 chive1583 chit1601 spurt1601 sprit1622 germen1628 spurge1630 spirt1634 brairding1637 springet1640 set1658 shrubble1674 underling1688 sobolesa1722 branchlet1731 springlet1749 sproutling1749 sprang1847 shootlet1889 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 382 The yonglinges or shoutes of bremble [L. turionum rubi]. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 10 Each having a white wicker over brimm'd With April's tender younglings. a1822 P. B. Shelley Coliseum in Ess. (1840) I. 174 The shattered masses of precipitous ruin, overgrown with the younglings of the forest. 2012 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 70 In fact, looking into the snap peas, I see there are plenty of younglings still. d. Something which has recently been created, introduced, etc., or which is (relatively) new or fresh. Now rare. ΚΠ 1744 P. Skelton Candid Reader Ded. p. iv It is humbly hoped this little Youngling of mine..will meet with the like kind of Reception from Thee. 1812 J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 116 He recommended me to publish. England I have looked to as the proper sphere in which to bring my youngling out. 1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest ix A grassy vale..Where..a pure stream ran, as yet A youngling. 2011 Hutchinson (Kansas) News (Nexis) 10 Apr. Ash Valley isn't an old town, by any means. Compare it to the likes of Kansas settlement, and most would consider it a youngling. †2. A young or new scholar or student, a disciple; a beginner, a novice; a person who is unpractised or inexperienced (usually with implication of actual youth). Cf. young adj. 5a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 3 Iungum mannum gedafenað, þæt hi leornion sumne wisdom and ðam ealdum gedafenað, þæt hi tæcon sum gerad heora iunglingum. a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 237 Þis is si fierðe lage; An þisser were..efter ures helendes upstiȝe to heuene þa apostles and hare iunglenges. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 387 He seiþ þat Chadde was a ȝongelyng, and lerned the rule of monkes in Hibernia. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. To Rdr. sig. B vj^v Younglynges in the feith. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 34 b Whose weapons of fire..doo..terrifie..yonglings and nouices of warre. 1652 I. Ambrose Media (ed. 2) x. 277 Let our Lord Jesus his tender-heartedness in Spiritual younglings, teach us mercy. 1682 Heraclitus Ridens 25 July 1/1 From the Seminary there a small Detachment was made of Yonglings that were got as far as Asserit A, negat E. B. adj. (attributive). 1. That is a youngling; young, youthful; (also) †inexperienced (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > novice or beginner younglinga1250 novice1530 freshmanly1568 elementary1601 neophyte1601 initiatea1616 novitious1619 abecedarian1633 tironizinga1660 novitial1778 neophytic1856 neophytish1897 rookie1902 tironic1909 Sears-Roebuck1917 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > young (of beings) littleeOE youngOE younglyOE younglinga1250 little waxena1325 greena1398 imperfecta1398 primec1429 unold?1440 juvync1450 novelc1450 unaged1486 in youth's flowers?1507 unbearded1560 unweaned1581 whelpish1586 ungrown1593 under-age1594 unhatched1601 infantine1603 springalda1614 unbakeda1616 unlickeda1616 juvenile1625 lile1633 juvenal1638 bloomy1651 youngish1667 blooming1676 puerilea1680 youngerly1742 steerish1789 chota1814 white-shoe1960 a1250 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Titus) (1981) l. 385 (MED) Her is a meiden ȝungling [c1225 Bodl. ȝunglich] of ȝeres ah se swiðe witti & wis on hise wordes. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Judges xviii. 3 Knowyng þe voice of þe ȝonglyng leuyte. ?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. sig. C.vi^v That which the Apostle sayth to be well done (sayth Sanders) these youngling diuines call vnprofitable. 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile Ep. Ded. sig. A 2 Fier to my hart, & wings to my youngling Muse. 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. sig. I2^v The delicacies of a youngling Princesse. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 15 The youngling Spiders (that were either hatching, or newly hatch'd). 1750 False Honour 10 Can Honour fill a Father's Place, Support and rear a youngling Race? 1786 R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night xviii, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 151 The youngling Cottagers retire to rest. 1800 W. Wordsworth Idle Shepherd-boys 6 The mountain raven's youngling brood. 1880 L. Morris Ode of Life 45 Since Artemis first trod the youngling earth. 1926 Rotarian July 51/2 Only we have forgotten, by the time their hatching day arrives, that once we had the characteristics of the youngling bird. 2013 Daily Rec. (Baltimore, Maryland) (Nexis) 13 Feb. As they went down the hallway, Deputy Bragunier saw numerous little youngling marijuana plants. 2. Relating to or characteristic of a youngling; (sometimes) spec. juvenile, naive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > relating to or intended for youth youthlyc900 youthful1561 youngthly1579 younkerly1579 youngling1582 juvenile1661 junior1860 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue To Rdr. sig. A 4 Idle toyes proceedinge from a youngling frenzie. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 77 To thee (young youth) these youngling lines I write. 1748 Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis sig. Aa^v He shall my youngling footsteps lead Thro' tufted lawn and fringed mead. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 185 Are ye not smitten by a youngling arm? 1869 J. K. Casey Rising of Moon 43 Telling now this chilling story I now grasp your youngling hand. 1901 C. G. D. Roberts in Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Apr. 166 That youngling winsomeness which is the heritage, to some degree and at some period, of the infancy of all the kindreds that breathe upon the earth. 1996 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 3 July 16 It would be wrong to conclude, however, that I am opposed to games. My youngling days were packed with them. †3. poetic. Designating the time of year when an animal's young are born or reared. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relating to genitala1382 generative?a1425 genitivea1500 procreatory1576 seminal1605 procreanta1616 younglinga1627 genitable1634 genial1652 spermatic1669 testiculatory1693 reproductive1746 generational1764 reproductory1831 genesial1848 a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkkk^v/2 You have built a nest That will stand all stormes,..and one day it may be The youngling season too, then I hope You'le ne'er fly out of sight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.OE
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