giftling
English
Etymology
gift + -ling
Noun
giftling (plural giftlings)
- A little gift.
- 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers:
- You young ladies, may you have plucked pretty giftlings from it; and out of the cracker sugar-plum which you have split with the captain or the sweet young curate may you have read one of those delicious conundrums which the confectioners introduce into the sweetmeats […]
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