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Definition of Nestling
1. Noun. Young bird not yet fledged.
2. Noun. A young person of either sex. "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
Terms within: Child's Body
Generic synonyms: Juvenile, Juvenile Person
Specialized synonyms: Bairn, Buster, Changeling, Child Prodigy, Infant Prodigy, Wonder Child, Foster Child, Foster-child, Fosterling, Imp, Monkey, Rapscallion, Rascal, Scalawag, Scallywag, Scamp, Kiddy, Orphan, Peanut, Picaninny, Piccaninny, Pickaninny, Poster Child, Kindergartener, Kindergartner, Preschooler, Silly, Sprog, Bambino, Toddler, Tot, Yearling, Urchin, Street Child, Waif
Derivative terms: Childhood, Childhood, Childly
Definition of Nestling
1. n. A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.
2. a. Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.
Definition of Nestling
1. Noun. A small bird that is still confined to the nest. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of nestle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nestling
1. a young bird [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestling
Literary usage of Nestling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Crrw, sv nestling, Canary-birds brought up by Hand. 1728. BAILEY, Diet, sv TO
KEEP A nestling ... What a nestling you keep, how restless and uneasy you are. ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"The crop contents of a nestling of this species taken at Boxford, Mass.. on August
12, 1905, were sent to Prof. Beai at Washington, and the following ..."
3. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"The next part of the sentence, " shall rejoice in her third nestling," may be
understood in this way:—The queen's first-born son, ..."
4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"Left innominate of a nestling. The cartilage is dotted, ae. acetabulum ; a. tr.
antl-trochanter; it. pre-acetabular. and it', post- acetabular portion of ..."
5. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"Previous, however, to laying, the work of" nestling becomes the common care ;
and this is performed with no small degree of assiduity and apparent design. ..."
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