wombling
wombling noun: an unborn or recently born child; fetus. Also the present participle and gerund of womble.
Noun
wombling (plural womblings)
- An unborn or recently born child; fetus.
- Aith is also a Kiln, that very important cooking or preparing place, from which the figures of all the old clay-formed gods came, no less than womblings or children, inasmuch as this word springs from the Gothic "Kilthei, the womb,” […]1883, James George Roche Forlong, Rivers of Life
- The inability to identify with the encompassing and potent womb of his mother leaves a male child traumatically isolated, helpless, not entirely born, or briefly born and then “killed” by envious males intent upon destroying “womblings.”2013, Harriet K. Wrye, Judith K. Welles, The Narration of Desire, page 102
Also used as
wombling is also the present participle and gerund of womble.
Forms of wombling
| plural | womblings |
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Origin of wombling
From womb + -ling.
Questions about wombling
- What does wombling mean?
- Wombling means an unborn or recently born child; fetus.
- What part of speech is wombling?
- Wombling is a noun.
- What is the plural of wombling?
- The plural of wombling is womblings.
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