rabbitling
English
Etymology
From rabbit + -ling.
Noun
rabbitling (plural rabbitlings)
- (rare) A small or young rabbit.
- 1857, Henry Morley, Gossip, page 228:
- Three rabbitlings, all with surprising tails — an unique breed — were a peace-offering to move the stubbornest of hearts.
- 1887, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 263, page 301:
- Yonder goes a weasel wriggling over a turf fence, on the other side of which probably it has its home, gorged, as one can imagine, with the brains of silly rabbibs[sic] and rabbitlings.
- 1905, Arthur Henry Beavan, Animals I Have Known, page 72:
- I remember catching a nearly full-grown "rabbitling” in a rather strange way when the waters were out at Windsor, Eton, and Datchet.
- 1980, Annual Report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Environment, page 177:
- The total quantity of milk produced during the year was 129,399.6 litres, out of which 25,420.0 litres were fed to calves, piglets and rabbitlings, 78,467.0 litres were sold to Hospitals, […]