lambling

English

Etymology

From lamb +‎ -ling.

Noun

lambling (plural lamblings)

1. A young or little lamb.
   • 1843, Punch Or The London Charivari - Volume 5 - Page 83:

     I have seen the lamblings skipping / In sunshine and in mist; […]

   • 1905, William Makepeace Thackeray, The works of William Makepeace Thackeray:

     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 […]

   • 2007, Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 115:

     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 […]

   • 2015, John Conroe, College Arcane, page 74:

     So tell me, lamblings, what's gonna keep a big bad supernatural predator from munching down on you succulent little morsels?” he asked, thoroughly creeping me out.

Synonyms

• lambkin