fledgeling
/ˈflɛdʒlɪŋ/
adjective
- New, inexperienced, or just beginning.
- They invested in a fledgeling startup with a lot of potential.
- The fledgeling artist sold her first painting at a local fair.
- His fledgeling attempts at cooking often ended in disaster.
noun
- A young bird that has just developed wing feathers and is learning to fly.
- The cat was eyeing a fledgeling that had fallen from the nest.
- We saw a fledgeling trying to follow its mother across the yard.
- The fledgeling took a wobbly flight from one branch to another.
- A person or thing that is new, inexperienced, or just starting out.
- The company is a fledgeling in the tech industry but growing fast.
- As a fledgeling writer, she was nervous about her first book launch.
- He was a fledgeling chef, still learning basic knife skills.