reckling

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/ˈɹɛklɪŋ/

noun

A weak child or animal.

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Meanings

nounreckling (plural recklings)

plural recklings · alternative wreckling

  1. archaicA weak child or animal.

    O ay, what say ye to Sir Valence, him / Whose kinsman left him watcher o'er his wife / And two fair babes, and went to distant lands; / Was one year gone, and on returning found / Not two but three: there lay the reckling, one / But one hour old! What said the happy sire?

    1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 130
  2. archaicA reckless person.

Origin

From reck + -ling.

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APA

reckling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reckling

MLA

“reckling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reckling. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reckling,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reckling.

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