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flipperlings

flipperlings is the plural of flipperling.

Meaning of flipperling

Noun

flipperling (plural flipperlings)

  1. (literary, rare) A young seal.
    • Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review.

Questions about flipperlings

What is flipperlings the plural of?
Flipperlings is the plural of flipperling.

Words near flipperlings in the dictionary

  1. flippered
  2. flippering
  3. flipperless
  4. flipperlike
  5. flipperling
  6. flipperlings
  7. flippers
  8. flipperty-flopperty
  9. flippery
  10. flippest
  11. flippety-floppety

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