Definition of "youngling"

youngling

/ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/

adjective
comparative more youngling, superlative most youngling
1. (archaic) Young; youthful.
noun
plural younglings
1. A young person, animal, or plant; chit.
  Quotations
  More dear […] than younglings to their dam.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 52
  He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you, as with us younglings.
  1556, Nicholas Ridley, conference with Hugh Latimer
  Obi-Wan Kenobi: I have seen a security hologram of him...killing younglings.
  2005 May 19, George Lucas, “Star Wars: Episode III ”, “Revenge of the Sith”, Lucasfilm