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adj
Young; youthful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: baby-faced, juvenile, hebetic, young, youngling, youngly, youngsome, youngthly, youthful, youthly, youthsome
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A young person, animal, or plant; chit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
