different between freshling vs fleshling

English

Etymology

fresh +? -ling

Adjective

freshling (not comparable)

1. (poetic) freshly grown

   • There comes the gentle steps of spring / So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing / Fanning the freshling hedges there

   • He blundered through the lighted stretch of fresh strewn hours, / Nor looked to profit at glad life in freshling flowers

Noun

freshling (plural freshlings)

1. An inexperienced person; a neophyte.

   • Mere freshlings are they, blank of brow, / Who read not how / Its prime had passed before / Their raw equipments, scenes, and says / Afflicted its memoried face, / That had seen every larger phase / Of human ways / Before these filled the place.

Related terms

• freshle
• freshman
• youngling

English

Etymology

flesh +? -ling

Noun

fleshling (plural fleshlings)

1. (fantasy, derogatory) A creature made of flesh; a human being.
2. (obsolete) A person devoted to sensual pursuits.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)