lambkin

American  

[lam-kin] / ˈlæm kɪn /

noun

1. a little lamb.

2. a person who is exceptionally sweet, young, and innocent, as a small child.

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lambkin British  

/ ˈlæmkɪn /

noun

1. a small or young lamb

2. a term of affection for a small endearing child

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Etymology

Origin of lambkin

First recorded in 1570–80; lamb + -kin

Example Sentences

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lambkin

With fresh full-throated warblings then the blithe birds stir the air, And lamb and lambkin in the mead their frisking sports prepare.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

The lambkin frisk’d, the damsel fain Would wile him back,—she called in vain.

From London Lyrics by George Cruikshank

Come here, my little lambkin, come,   And lick my hand—now do!

From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole

Then both his children to a window leads That over daisied pasture-land looks out, And shows Bopeep where her lost flock wide feeds, And every frolic lambkin leaps about.

From Poems by William Dean Howells

There might ye see the piony spread wide, The full-blown rose, the shepherd and his lass, Lapdog and lambkin with black staring eyes, And parrots with twin cherries in their beak.”

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies