Meanings
nounluckling (plural lucklings)
plural lucklings
- One favoured by luck or fortune.
Our little lambkin, waxwing, luckling, all the cordial choir are Noah-calling you now: [...]
2007, Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth1 more example
And how excessive is the conceit likely to be of the few inordinately flattered lucklings of an hour, on a single day in July last, in Saratoga!
1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher
Origin
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