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liceling

liceling is the alternative form of louseling.

Meaning of louseling

Noun

louseling (plural louselings)

  1. (rare) A small or immature louse; nymph
    • He that, without a microscope, could tell On one small louse how many licelings dwell!1791, A Second Heroic Epistle to Joseph Priestley, page 4

Forms of liceling

plurallicelings

Questions about liceling

What is liceling the alternative form of?
Liceling is the alternative form of louseling.

Words near liceling in the dictionary

  1. licecide
  2. licecides
  3. liceities
  4. liceity
  5. liceless
  6. liceling
  7. licelings
  8. licence
  9. licence laundering
  10. licence plate
  11. licence plates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: liceling (page history and authors); louseling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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