Dictionary

hatchling en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈhæt͡ʃlɪŋ/

Etymology

From hatch + -ling. Sense 2 in reference to the term crack one's egg (“realize one is transgender”).

Meanings

1. A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.
   • The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.
   • Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths. 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 90:
2. (qualifier:transgender slang) A person who has (especially recently) realized that they are transgender.

Forms

Deriveds

posthatchling

Relateds

nestling · fledgling

Translations (18)

lzh-lit 鷇 (a newly hatched animal) · zza leyr (diq) (a newly hatched animal) · mi pūhouhou (a newly hatched animal) · sq çuç (a newly hatched animal) · it pullo (a newly hatched animal) · hu fióka (a newly hatched animal) · grc νεοσσός (a newly hatched animal) · it neosgusciato (a newly hatched animal) · it pulcino (a newly hatched animal) · nl jong (a newly hatched animal) · sv unge (a newly hatched animal) · de Schlüpfling (a newly hatched animal) · pl nowo wyklute pisklę (a newly hatched animal) · oj banajaanh (a newly hatched animal) · nl kuiken (a newly hatched animal) · zza pıt (a newly hatched animal) · zza tut (a newly hatched animal) · fi vastakuoriutunut (a newly hatched animal)