ladyling
ladyling noun: a young, petite, or unimportant lady.
Noun
ladyling (plural ladylings)
- A young, petite, or unimportant lady.
- I now found what was the stimulus proper to excite and arouse fashionable people, such as lordlings and ladylings, for of both had I specimens, was a row of card-tables, to which, after swallowing a cup of tea, [...]1803, John Bristed, The adviser
- All the rest of the place is detestable. But none of these once favourite receptacles have been blest by violent overflows — at least, of visiters — this year. No ; — my lord and my lady, and my lordling and my ladyling, all go abroad: [...]1833, New monthly magazine, volume 38, page 346
Forms of ladyling
| plural | ladylings |
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Origin of ladyling
From lady + -ling. Compare lordling.
Questions about ladyling
- What does ladyling mean?
- Ladyling means a young, petite, or unimportant lady.
- What part of speech is ladyling?
- Ladyling is a noun.
- What is the plural of ladyling?
- The plural of ladyling is ladylings.
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