Contextualizebeta

fatherling

noun

Etymology

From father + -ling.

Definitions

  1. A father.

  2. A father's child.

    • Because P (parent) and Ch (child) elide gender distinctions, Gould substitutes two pairs of terms: F (father) and F (fatherling, or man's child); [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fatherling. 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