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dogling

dogling noun: a little or young dog; a puppy.

Noun

dogling (plural doglings)

  1. A little or young dog; a puppy.
    • The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead.1903, Harper's magazine
    Synonyms:
    doglet

Synonyms of dogling

Forms of dogling

pluraldoglings

Origin of dogling

From dog + -ling.

Questions about dogling

What does dogling mean?
Dogling means a little or young dog; a puppy.
What part of speech is dogling?
Dogling is a noun.
What is the plural of dogling?
The plural of dogling is doglings.

Words near dogling in the dictionary

  1. doglessness
  2. doglet
  3. doglets
  4. doglike
  5. dogliness
  6. dogling
  7. doglings
  8. doglock
  9. doglocks
  10. dogloo
  11. dogloos

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