An awkward and inexperienced youth.

synonyms: greenhorn, rookie.

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism^†; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    courseness etc. adj.^†; indecorum, misbehavior.    lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity; boorishness etc. adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism^†; ribaldry; slang etc. (neology) 563.    bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].    [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^†; baroque, rococo.    rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub^†; clown etc. (commonalty) 876; Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu etc. 876; frump, dowdy; slattern etc. 653.    ... show more

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne [Lat.]; the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos, hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed; man in the street.    mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi^†; trash; profanum vulgus [Lat.], ignobile vulgus [Lat.]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.    commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary^†, proletaire^†, roturier^†, Mr.    Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney; grisette^†, demimonde.    peasant, countryman, boor, carle^†, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius [Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern^†, tyke, tike, chuff^†, ryot^†, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy^†; rustic, hayseed [Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling^†; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin^†, looby^†, rube [U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper^†, slubberdegullion^†; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.    upstart, parvenu, skipjack^†; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.    beggar, gaberlunzie^†, muckworm^†, mudlark^†, sans culotte, raff^†, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian^†, panhandler [Slang], sundowner^†, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench^†, scrub, jade; gossoon^†.    Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub^†, rough diamond^†.    barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.    ... show more

Dutch: nieuweling, nieuwkomer, beginneling, schacht, broekje, groene, groentje, melkmuil, vlasbaard
Polish: gołowąs

A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).

synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy.

Roget 129: infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.    child, bairn [Scot.], little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling^†; elf.    youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker^†, callant^†, whipster^†, whippersnapper, whiffet [U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master.    scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin, codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin^†; aurelia^†, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha^†, orphan, pupa, staddle^†.    girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden.    ... show more

Dutch: zoontje, jochie

The young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion.

synonym: young carnivore.

Dutch: welp

Give birth to cubs.