fawnling

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fawn +‎ -ling.

Noun[edit]

fawnling (plural fawnlings)

  1. A small, young, or baby fawn.
    • 2012, John Payne Hafiz, The Collected Poems of Hafiz:
      Slay not that my musk-deer fawnling, Hunter! Prithee, have thou shame Of her night-black eye nor bind her With thy lasso long and strait.