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Answer for the clue "Young boxer? ", 3 letters:
pup

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"young dog," 1760, shortened form of puppy (q.v.). Used from 1580s for "conceited person." Applied to the young of the fur seal from 1815. Used for "inexperienced person" by 1890. Pup tent (also dog tent ) is from 1863. Sopwith pup , popular name of the ...

Usage examples of pup.

He came out of his house with a small Airedale pup which had been the merry playmate of Alette and Yvonne.

I later sent a message to my friend back on Earth, informing him that we had seen Bozo and his mate, together with a litter of eight of the fattest, most adorable othode pups imaginable.

Bozo has gone back to the wild, with most of her litter, and Bozo, together with one of his male pups, feeling the need for human companionship again, now that the urge for domesticity had waned, took to haunting the gates of Shondakor, and finally deigned to join us in the palace as a pet of the entire court.

Now the pup repeated this sequence of actions, somewhat more clumsily and more gracelessly than had Bozo, but without accident.

At the first unhappy yowl, Bozo pricked up his ears and saw the trouble his bothersome pup had gotten into.

The two beasts sniffed each other warily, then Bozo, like an anxious parent, began licking his pup as if to make certain that he was unharmed.

Numair, the pups, and the horses went to bed, Daine lay awake, listening to the chatter of owls and bats.

They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.

It mentions a number of Bibles in Greek, Latin and the vernaculars, the works of Luther, Carlstadt, Osiander, Ochino, Bullinger, Calvin, Oecolampadius, Jonas, Calvin, Melanchthon, Zwingli, Huss and John Pupper of Goch, a Dutch author of the fifteenth century revived by the Protestants.

Silver came up the long slope, gave the grunt-whine that summoned the pups, and Kapu ran to meet her.

She recalled the day Amaroq had put him down and forced him to surrender, the many times Silver had made him go back and sit with the pups, and the times that Kapu had ignored his calls to come home to the den.

Yes, the pups were singing too, sounding very mature and grown up--until Kapu added his laugh-bark.

She tried to encourage the pups to follow her by nibbling the fruit that clustered on this new tree.

It had been all the wolves could do to slow them down while Nori tore the pups from the earthen den and ran for the rocks.

Only because they could also sense the grey in her, not just the taint, and because their need to defend the pups was stronger than their fear, had they gone after the worlags and let Nori climb out with the pups.