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broodling

noun

Etymology

From brood + -ling.

  1. derived from *bʰreh₁-✻ — “breath, mist, vapour, steam”
  2. inherited from *brōduz✻ — “heat, breeding”
  3. inherited from brōd — “brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”
  4. inherited from brood
  5. suffixed as broodling — “brood + ling”

Definitions

  1. a member of a brood, as of animals

    • And the black duck unfearing leads/Her broodling from the sheltering reeds.

  2. a member of a brood in science fiction

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for broodling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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