daughterling

English

Etymology

From daughter +‎ -ling.

Noun

daughterling (plural daughterlings)

1. (diminutive, endearing) A daughter, especially a young or precious one.
   • 2003, William Patten, Poems Old and New:

     BLOSSOM of the almond-trees, • April's gift to April's bees, Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling; — [...]

   • 2004, Flora Annie Webster Steel, Dramatic History of India:

     Would I have my vanished sight once more I Tell me, daughterling, how looks this promised land towards which we have been journeying these months and years?

Related terms

• sonling

Translations

a daughter

• French: fillette (fr) f, fifille (fr) f
• German: Tochterchen f, Tochterling f
• Irish: iníonóg f
• Italian: figliola f
• Portuguese: filhinha f
• Scottish Gaelic: nìonag (gd) f, nìghneag f
• Spanish: hijita f
• Swedish: tös (sv) c
• Welsh: merchig f