Dictionary

doveling en · NOUN

Etymology

From dove + -ling.

Meanings

1. A young or baby dove.
   • Their guan beaks, coupled dovelings, the poorotten, leafing their livers, nieces of the cloud . . . Life! Life! This is life! 2007, César Vallejo, Clayton Eshleman, The Complete Poetry:
   • On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings. 1914, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona:
   • She began to wring her hands. "Oh, my poor doomed dovelings . . . my darling star-crossed daughters . . ." 2007, Lucretia Cole, The King of Amphiboly:

Forms

Synonyms

squab · dovelet

Translations (3)

ro pui de porumbel (a baby dove) · nci huīlōconētl (a baby dove) · pl gołębię (a baby dove)