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weanling

[ ween-ling ]
/ ˈwin lɪŋ /
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noun

a child or animal newly weaned.

adjective

newly weaned.

Words related to weanling

nursling

Words nearby weanling

wealth, wealth tax, wealthy, wean, weaner, weanling, weapon, weapon system, weaponeer, weaponize, weaponry

Origin of weanling

First recorded in 1525–35; wean + -ling1
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Examples from the Web for weanling

  • She had known that colt from a weanling and to her he had not been an animal, but a personality.

    Destiny|Charles Neville Buck

  • The Rani proposed that there might be another performance on the occasion of the first-rice ceremony of the ‘royal’ weanling.

    Mashi and Other Stories|Rabindranath Tagore

British Dictionary definitions for weanling

weanling
/ (ˈwiːnlɪŋ) /

noun

  1. a child or young animal recently weaned
  2. (as modifier)a weanling calf

Word Origin for weanling

C16: from wean 1 + -ling 1
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