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hatchling

noun
/ˈhæt͡ʃlɪŋ/

Etymology

From hatch + -ling. Sense 2 in reference to the term crack one's egg (“realize one is transgender”).

  1. derived from *hakkōną✻
  2. derived from *hakōn✻
  3. derived from hacher
  4. derived from hacher
  5. suffixed as hatchling — “hatch + ling”

Definitions

  1. A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.

    • The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.
    • Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths.

  2. A person who has (especially recently) realized that they are transgender.

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Derived

posthatchling

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hatchling. 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