Meanings
noundaughterling (plural daughterlings)
plural daughterlings
- diminutiveendearingA daughter, especially a young or precious one.
BLOSSOM of the almond-trees, • April's gift to April's bees, Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling; — [...]
2003, William Patten, Poems Old and New1 more example
Would I have my vanished sight once more I Tell me, daughterling, how looks this promised land towards which we have been journeying these months and years?
2004, Flora Annie Webster Steel, Dramatic History of India
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian дъщери́чка, дъщери́ца
- дъщери́чка (dăšteríčka)a daughter
- дъщери́ца (dăšteríca)a daughter
French fillette, fifille
- fillettea daughter
- fifillea daughter
German Tochterchen, Tochterling
- Tochterchena daughter
- Tochterlinga daughter
Irish iníonóg
- iníonóga daughter
Italian figliola
- figliolaa daughter
Portuguese filhinha
- filhinhaa daughter
Scottish Gaelic nìonag, nìghneag
- nìonaga daughter
- nìghneaga daughter
Spanish hijita
- hijitaa daughter
Swedish tös
- tösa daughter
Welsh merchig
- merchiga daughter
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APA
daughterling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daughterling
MLA
“daughterling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daughterling. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “daughterling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daughterling.
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