wombling

English

Etymology 1

From womb +‎ -ling.

Noun

wombling (plural womblings)

1. (rare) An unborn or recently born child; fetus.
   • 1883, James George Roche Forlong, Rivers of Life:

     Aith is also a Kiln, that very important cooking or preparing place, from which the figures of all the old clay-formed gods came, no less than womblings or children, inasmuch as this word springs from the Gothic "Kilthei, the womb,” […]

   • 2013, Harriet K. Wrye, Judith K. Welles, The Narration of Desire, page 102:

     The inability to identify with the encompassing and potent womb of his mother leaves a male child traumatically isolated, helpless, not entirely born, or briefly born and then “killed” by envious males intent upon destroying “womblings.”

Etymology 2

Verb

wombling

1. present participle and gerund of womble