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netherling en · NOUN

Etymology

From nether- + -ling.

Meanings

1. Articles of clothing worn underneath; nethergarments; stockings.
2. A creature, dweller, or inhabitant of the netherworld.
   • It found flesh and drove deep into the netherling's hip. 2010, Samuel Sykes, Tome of the Undergates:
   • The demon cat of Losanne was indeed a vile netherling, grown to unearthly hugeness by the spirit of the demon [...] 1995, Richard Gilliam, Martin Harry Greenberg, Edward E Kramer, Excalibur:

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