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lambkins

lambkins is the plural of lambkin.

Meaning of lambkin

Noun

lambkin (plural lambkins)

  1. A young lamb, a very young sheep.
    • A lambkin’s snowy fleece1781, Richard Hole, Homer's Hymn to Ceres, Exeter: B. Thorn & Son, p. 38
  2. A term of endearment.
    • Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins vve vvill liue.1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC...

Questions about lambkins

What is lambkins the plural of?
Lambkins is the plural of lambkin.

Words near lambkins in the dictionary

  1. lambish
  2. lambitive
  3. lambitives
  4. lambkill
  5. lambkin
  6. lambkins
  7. lamblast
  8. lamblasted
  9. lamblasting
  10. lamblasts
  11. Lamble

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