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Whelpling vs Youngling - What's the difference?

whelpling | youngling |

As nouns the difference between whelpling and youngling

is that whelpling is a little whelp while youngling is a young person, animal or plant; chit.

As an adjective youngling is

young; youthful.

whelpling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A little whelp.
  • *1907 , Frederic William Farrar, Lives of the Fathers :
    • "[...] For that whelpling Diogenes sought to find a man, carrying round his lamp at midday; but Marcion, having quenched the light of faith, has lost the God whom he had found."
  • *2011 , Ani Johnson, Half-Breed :
    • "Yes, I did," Evia replied, and then licked the top of the whelpling's head.
  • *2011 , Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence :
    • [...] to share space with his dog, whom the attendant explained he'd rescued from the road and taken in, likely, according to the corny script I'd begun playing in, so I'd understand I was truly a stray, a whelpling , a pup.

    youngling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • young; youthful

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young person, animal or plant; chit.
  • * Spenser
    • More dear than younglings to their dam.
  • * Ridley
    • He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings .