different between suckling vs luckling
suckling
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sukling, sukeling, sokeling, equivalent to suck +? -ling. Cognate with Middle Dutch sogelinc (“suckling”), Dutch zuigeling (“suckling”), German Säugling (“suckling”).
Noun
suckling (plural sucklings)
- An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.
- A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother.
Related terms
- -ling
- suck
- sucker
- suckling calf
- suckling pig
- sucking reflex
- suckle
- suckler (suckler cow)
Translations
Etymology 2
From suckle +? -ing.
Verb
suckling
- present participle of suckle
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- lung sick, sculking
suckling From the web:
luckling
English
Etymology
From luck +? -ling.
Noun
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: [...]
- 1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher:
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