swallowling

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noun

A young swallow.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounswallowling (plural swallowlings)

plural swallowlings

  1. A young swallow.

    And swallows are the spring's agents, nesting in the rafters, eating, defecating, procreating, producing prodigious flocks of swallowlings.

    1989, Stephen Owen, Yuwen (Suo'an), Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire (page 92)
    1 more example

    Then back to the slender bough, which drooped under the weight of four swallowlings in a row, and now swayed with the agitations of their welcome to hovered wings and a full beak.

    1923, Harold John Massingham, Untrodden Ways, page 85

Origin

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