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straylings

straylings is the plural of strayling.

Meaning of strayling

Noun

strayling (plural straylings)

  1. A little waif or stray; a driftling.
    • […] yet, seeing it in its true light, manages to hold herself aloof from it; unconsciously conveying to one meeting her for the first time the impression that she was in San Pasqual on her own sufferance—a sort of strayling from another world who had picked upon the lonely little desert town as the...2008, Peter B. Kyne, The Long Chance

Questions about straylings

What is straylings the plural of?
Straylings is the plural of strayling.

Words near straylings in the dictionary

  1. Strayhorns
  2. straying
  3. strayings
  4. straylight
  5. strayling
  6. straylings
  7. strays
  8. strd
  9. strds
  10. streak
  11. streak camera

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