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freshling

freshling adjective: freshly grown.

Adjective

freshling (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) freshly grown
    • There comes the gentle steps of spring / So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing / Fanning the freshling hedges there1832-1837, John Clare, “O quiet living solitude”, in Poems of the Middle Period, →ISBN, page 52
    • He blundered through the lighted stretch of fresh strewn hours, / Nor looked to profit at glad life in freshling flowers1907, Vernon Wade Wagar, Pocket Tokens, and Other Poems, page 20

Noun

freshling (plural freshlings)

  1. An inexperienced person; a neophyte.
    • Mere freshlings are they, blank of brow, / Who read not how / Its prime had passed before / Their raw equipments, scenes, and says / Afflicted its memoried face, / That had seen every larger phase / Of human ways / Before these filled the place.1922, Thomas Hardy, “A House with a History”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier

Forms of freshling

pluralfreshlings

Origin of freshling

From fresh + -ling.

Questions about freshling

What does freshling mean?
Freshling means freshly grown.
What part of speech is freshling?
Freshling can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near freshling in the dictionary

  1. freshies
  2. freshing
  3. freshing up
  4. freshish
  5. freshlier
  6. freshling
  7. freshlings
  8. freshly
  9. freshman
  10. Freshman 15
  11. freshman fifteen

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