| A foal is an immature horse, a chicken an immature fowl, a calf an immature ox, a fledgeling an immature bird. |
| Several of the characters in The Autobiography of Malcolm X are fledgeling pimps, including Malcolm himself. |
| It saw the egg and probably the chick, but not the fledgeling. |
| Zimbabwe is an example of the pressure placed on fledgeling democracies in Africa. |
| A shabby grey building a short walk from the city's becalmed shopping district, it is home to a clutch of fledgeling tech start-ups. |
| The knowing bird is not caught in the snare, and I, Dilasah, am not a fledgeling. |
