chargeling

English

Etymology

charge +‎ -ling

Noun

chargeling (plural chargelings)

1. A little or young charge (person in the care of another).
   • 2005, David Farrell Krell, The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God, page 218:

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