doveling

noun

Etymology

From dove + -ling.

  1. inherited from *dūbǭ
  2. inherited from *dūbā
  3. inherited from *dūfe
  4. inherited from douve
  5. suffixed as doveling — “dove + ling

Definitions

  1. A young or baby dove.

    • On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings.
    • She began to wring her hands. "Oh, my poor doomed dovelings . . . my darling star-crossed daughters . . ."
    • Their guan beaks, coupled dovelings, the poorotten, leafing their livers, nieces of the cloud . . . Life! Life! This is life!

The neighborhood

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA