weanling

[ ween-ling ]

noun

1. a child or animal newly weaned.

adjective

1. newly weaned.

weanling

/ ˈwiːnlɪŋ /

noun

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

      a weanling calf

Word History and Origins

Origin of weanling¹

First recorded in 1525–35; wean + -ling ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of weanling¹

C16: from wean ¹+ -ling ¹

Example Sentences

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

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This is “Puckeridge”, a term also applied to a fatal distemper which often attacks weanling calves.

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I had not asked him—had never said that the poor weanling wanted milk.

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

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