Chargeling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A little or young charge (person in the care of another).

    "Suddenly he was deprived of his job, his chargelings, whom he loved, and Diotima herself."

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"Suddenly he was deprived of his job, his chargelings, whom he loved, and Diotima herself."

Etymology

From charge + -ling.

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