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sportlings

sportlings is the plural of sportling.

Meaning of sportling

Noun

sportling (plural sportlings)

  1. (archaic, poetic) A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
    • When again the lambkins play — Pretty sportlings, full of May.1748, Ambrose Philips, Ode To the Honourable Miss Carteret

Questions about sportlings

What is sportlings the plural of?
Sportlings is the plural of sportling.

Words near sportlings in the dictionary

  1. sportjackets
  2. sportless
  3. sportlessness
  4. sportlike
  5. sportling
  6. sportlings
  7. sportly
  8. sporto
  9. sportocracy
  10. sportocrat
  11. sportocratic

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