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monsterling

monsterling noun: a small or young monster.

Noun

monsterling (plural monsterlings)

  1. A small or young monster.
    • "They will know something is wrong, for the brute would not willingly have left her side. Odd that it did not fight you." The blunt-nose, slope-browed face of the monsterling was inscrutable, scarlet eyes inhuman and feral in the glow of the fire.1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji
    • “My apologies, good monsterling. It was an accident.”2006, Martin H. Greenberg, Brittiany A. Koren, Fantasy Gone Wrong

Forms of monsterling

pluralmonsterlings

Origin of monsterling

From monster + -ling.

Questions about monsterling

What does monsterling mean?
Monsterling means a small or young monster.
What part of speech is monsterling?
Monsterling is a noun.
What is the plural of monsterling?
The plural of monsterling is monsterlings.

Words near monsterling in the dictionary

  1. monsterkind
  2. monsterless
  3. monsterlet
  4. monsterlets
  5. monsterlike
  6. monsterling
  7. monsterlings
  8. monsterly
  9. monsterology
  10. monsterous
  11. monsterously

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