different between youngling vs freshling

English

Etymology

From Middle English youngling, ?ongelyng, ?ungling, from Old English ?eongling (“a youth”), from Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, *jungilingaz (“young man, youngling”), equivalent to young +? -ling. Cognate with Dutch jongeling (“a youngster”), German Jüngling (“a youth”), Swedish yngling (“a youth, kid”), Icelandic unglingur (“teenager, youth”). More at young. Doublet of Yngling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??l??/

Adjective

youngling (comparative more youngling, superlative most youngling)

1. (archaic) young; youthful

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:young

Translations

Noun

youngling (plural younglings)

1. A young person, animal or plant; chit.
   • 1556, Nicholas Ridley, conference with Hugh Latimer

     He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you, as with us younglings.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:youngling (animal) or Thesaurus:child (human)

Translations

English

Etymology

fresh +? -ling

Adjective

freshling (not comparable)

1. (poetic) freshly grown

   • There comes the gentle steps of spring / So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing / Fanning the freshling hedges there

   • He blundered through the lighted stretch of fresh strewn hours, / Nor looked to profit at glad life in freshling flowers

Noun

freshling (plural freshlings)

1. An inexperienced person; a neophyte.

   • Mere freshlings are they, blank of brow, / Who read not how / Its prime had passed before / Their raw equipments, scenes, and says / Afflicted its memoried face, / That had seen every larger phase / Of human ways / Before these filled the place.

Related terms

• freshle
• freshman
• youngling