lambling en · NOUN
Etymology
From lamb + -ling.
Meanings
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A young or little lamb.
So tell me, lamblings, what's gonna keep a big bad supernatural predator from munching down on you succulent little morsels?” he asked, thoroughly creeping me out.
2015, John Conroe, College Arcane, page 74:I have seen the lamblings skipping / In sunshine and in mist; […]
1843, Punch Or The London Charivari - Volume 5 - Page 83These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations, and when he gave out the hymn, there was such a negro chorus about the house as might be heard across the Potomac — such a chorus as would never have been heard […]
1905, William Makepeace Thackeray, The works of William Makepeace Thackeray:These two pivots of the Great Wheel, blended, had brought men, women and children in their thousands, to kill some miserable lambling . . . on the temple steps in stonement for their sins […]
2007, Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 115:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lamblings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |