fry vs yearling

yearling vs fry

fry and yearling both are nouns.

fry is a verb but yearling is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fry	Yes	No	Yes	No
yearling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, yearling is a hyponym of fry; that is, yearling is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fry:

fry: a young person of either sex
yearling: a young child who is just beginning to walk

Other hyponyms of fry include bairn, buster, changeling, child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, foster-child, foster child, fosterling, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, kiddie, kiddy, orphan, peanut, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, poster child, kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler, silly, sprog, bambino, toddler, tot, urchin, street child, waif.

fry (noun)	yearling (noun)
a young person of either sex	an animal in its second year
	a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth
	a young child who is just beginning to walk

fry (verb)	yearling (verb)
cook in hot fat or oil
kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
be excessively hot

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