different between duckling vs luckling

English

From Middle English dokeling, dukling, dookelynge (“duckling”), equivalent to duck +? -ling.

duckling (plural ducklings)

From luck +? -ling.

luckling (plural lucklings)

One favoured by luck or fortune.
- 1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher:
  And how excessive is the conceit likely to be of the few inordinately flattered lucklings of an hour, on a single day in July last, in Saratoga!
- 2007, Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth:
  Our little lambkin, waxwing, luckling, all the cordial choir are Noah-calling you now: [...]

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