unlicked cub

This unlicked cub was to come and be a sort of general factotum to him, and do his best to help him with his work, and so on.

He told us at dinner that he had come up to find a good ignorant unlicked cub to help him with his work, who could be trusted to obey an order when he received one and act for himself when he did not.

"Lady Josceline is entertaining visitors," he announced: "the Duchess of Dawn—and that unlicked cub Ingoldsby."

As for him—he's an unlicked cub.

“Oh, but I thought it was only a snake!” said the youth, with that air of unmistakable self-satisfaction which at once indicates the unlicked cub.