I. ˈyəŋliŋ, -lēŋ noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English yongling, from Old English geongling, from geong young + -ling
: one that is young: as
a. : a young person : youth
a thin blond youngling — D.C.Peattie
an automobile … is no treat to quite a large proportion of our younglings — F.A.Swinnerton
b. : a young animal or offspring of an animal
the youngling rejoined its mother who … led her darling away into the tall grass — Roy Bedichek
nerves … so placed in the youngling as to provide for the migration — Book of Fishes
II. adjective
: young , youthful