youngling

[ yuhng-ling ]

/ ˈyʌŋ lɪŋ /

a young person.

anything young, as a young animal.

a novice; a beginner.

young; youthful.

Origin of youngling

before 900; Middle English yongling, Old English geongling; cognate with Dutch jongeling, German Jüngling. See young, -ling¹

Its little kid skips about, for the time of toil has not yet come to the youngling, and it may gambol now.

A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe |John Macgregor
Said the youngling: "Knowest thou not Jack of the Tofts and his seven sons, and what he is, and that he dwelleth there?"

Child Christopher |William Morris
Nine fair children sat around their domestic hearth, and one, the youngling of the flock, smiled upon its mother's knee.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I |Various
But if not, then do I depart from Greenharbour straightway, and take the youngling with me to hang him up on the first tree.

Child Christopher |William Morris

But here I take up this youngling's glove; and on his head be his fate!

Child Christopher |William Morris

youngling

/ (ˈjʌŋlɪŋ) /

literary

Old English geongling