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freshlings

freshlings is the plural of freshling.

Meaning of freshling

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

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What is freshlings the plural of?
Freshlings is the plural of freshling.

Words near freshlings in the dictionary

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

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