wombling

plural womblings

1. rareAn unborn or recently born child; fetus.

   Aith is also a Kiln, that very important cooking or preparing place, from which the figures of all the old clay-formed gods came, no less than womblings or children, inasmuch as this word springs from the Gothic "Kilthei, the womb,” […]

   1883, James George Roche Forlong, Rivers of Life

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   The inability to identify with the encompassing and potent womb of his mother leaves a male child traumatically isolated, helpless, not entirely born, or briefly born and then “killed” by envious males intent upon destroying “womblings.”

   2013, Harriet K. Wrye, Judith K. Welles, The Narration of Desire, page 102

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of womble