lambling

noun

Etymology

From lamb + -ling.

  1. inherited from *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos
  2. inherited from *lambaz
  3. inherited from *lamb
  4. inherited from lamb
  5. inherited from lamb
  6. suffixed as lambling — “lamb + ling

Definitions

  1. A young or little lamb.

    • I have seen the lamblings skipping / In sunshine and in mist; […]
    • These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations, and when he gave out the hymn, there was such a negro chorus about the house as might be heard across the Potomac — such a chorus as would never have been heard […]
    • These two pivots of the Great Wheel, blended, had brought men, women and children in their thousands, to kill some miserable lambling . . . on the temple steps in stonement for their sins […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lambling. 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