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weanling

[ ween-ling ]

noun

  1. a child or animal newly weaned.


adjective

  1. newly weaned.

weanling

/ ˈwiːnlɪŋ /

noun

    1. a child or young animal recently weaned
    2. ( as modifier )

      a weanling calf

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of weanling1

First recorded in 1525–35; wean + -ling 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of weanling1

C16: from wean 1+ -ling 1
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Example Sentences

She had known that colt from a weanling and to her he had not been an animal, but a personality.

This is “Puckeridge”, a term also applied to a fatal distemper which often attacks weanling calves.

I had not asked him—had never said that the poor weanling wanted milk.

The Rani proposed that there might be another performance on the occasion of the first-rice ceremony of the ‘royal’ weanling.

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