Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
alevin | a young fish, esp a salmon just hatched. |
bonham | a piglet. |
brit | a young herring, sprat or other fish. |
britt | a young herring, sprat or other fish. |
calf | a young cow the skin of a calf, calfskin |
calflike | like a calf. |
calve | to give birth to a calf. |
cheeper | a young bird, esp a game-bird. |
chick | a young bird. |
chickling | a small chick or chicken. |
cub | the young of certain carnivorous animals; (verb) to produce cubs. |
cubhood | the state of being a cub. |
cubless | without cubs. |
cygnet | a young swan. |
dogey | a motherless calf. |
dogie | a motherless calf. |
dogy | a motherless calf. |
duckling | a baby duck. |
eaglet | a young eagle. |
ean | to give birth to. |
eanling | a young lamb. |
eirack | a young hen. |
elt | a young sow. |
elver | a young eel. |
eyas | a young hawk taken from the nest for training. |
eyass | a young hawk taken from the nest for training. |
fawn | a young deer; a yellowish-brown colour (verb) to ingratiate oneself with |
fawnlike | like a fawn. |
fingerling | a salmon parr or young trout less than a year old. |
finnac | a young seatrout. |
finnack | a young seatrout. |
finnock | a young seatrout. |
firstling | the first produce or offspring, esp of animals. |
fledgeling | a young bird just fledged. |
fledgling | a young bird just fledged. |
foal | the young of any animal of the horse family; (verb) to give birth to a foal. |
froglet | a little frog. |
frogling | a little frog. |
gilt | a young sow. |
gimmer | a young ewe; (contemptuously) a woman. |
goatling | a young goat in its second year. |
gosling | a young or unfledged goose. |
grilse | a young salmon. |
gryce | a young boar. |
guga | a young gannet, eaten as a delicacy in the Hebrides. |
hatchling | a creature just hatched. |
hedgepig | a young hedgehog. |
herling | a young seatrout, a finnock. |
hidder | a young male sheep. |
hirling | a young seatrout, a finnock. |
hoggerel | a young sheep. |
howlet | a young owl. |
immature | not mature (noun) an immature animal |
immaturely | iMMATURE, not mature. |
keb | to give birth to a stillborn lamb. |
keet | a young guinea-fowl. |
kidlet | a very little kid. |
kidling | a young kid. |
kitling | a young kitten; a whelp. |
kitten | a young cat (verb) of a cat, ferret, beaver, etc to give birth to a kitten or kittens |
kittenish | of or like a kitten. |
kittenishly | kITTENISH, of or like a kitten. |
kittenishness | the state of being kittenish. |
kitteny | like a kitten > KITTENIER, KITTENIEST. |
lamb | a young sheep (verb) to give birth to a lamb |
lambie | a lambkin. |
lambkin | a little lamb. |
lamblike | like a lamb; gentle; meek. |
lambling | a little lamb. |
lamby | lamblike. |
lionet | a young lion. |
mattie | a young herring with undeveloped roe. |
owlet | a young owl. |
parr | a young salmon, during its freshwater days (first two years). |
phinnock | a young seatrout. |
pickerel | a young pike; a small American freshwater fish. |
piglet | a little pig. |
pigling | a little pig. |
podley | a young coalfish. |
poot | a poult, a young fowl; (verb) to shoot at young partridges or young grouse. |
poult | a young fowl, esp turkey. |
pullet | a young hen. |
pullus | a chick or young bird. |
samlet | a young salmon, a parr. |
scaury | in the Orkneys, a young gull. |
schrod | a young cod or haddock. |
scourie | in the Orkneys, a young gull. |
scowrie | in the Orkneys, a young gull. |
scrod | a young cod or haddock. |
shellbound | of a baby bird etc., unable to escape from the shell. |
sillock | a young coalfish. |
skegger | a young salmon. |
smolt | a young salmon two or three years old. |
soare | a young hawk. |
spottie | a young deer up to the age of three months. |
sprat | a young herring. |
squab | fat, clumsy, unfledged (noun) a young pigeon; (verb) to stuff, upholster |
steerling | a young small steer. |
tarrock | the young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt. |
yean | esp. of a sheep, to bring forth young. |
yeanling | an animal that is undergoing the process of weaning. |
yelt | a young sow. |