luckling
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]luckling (plural lucklings)
- One favoured by luck or fortune.
- 1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher:
- And how excessive is the conceit likely to be of the few inordinately flattered lucklings of an hour, on a single day in July last, in Saratoga!
- 2007, Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth:
- Our little lambkin, waxwing, luckling, all the cordial choir are Noah-calling you now: [...]