释义 |
ˈsportling rare. [f. sport n.1 or v. + -ling.] 1. A small sportive or playful animal, bird, etc.
c1720A. Philips Odes, To Miss Carteret 20 When again the lambkins play, Pretty sportlings full of May. c1720Swift On Rover [in ridicule of prec.] 34 Where the linnets sit and sing, Little sportlings of the spring. †2. A sport or abnormal variation. Obs.—1
1723P. Blair Pharmaco-Bot. i. 16 All the other are only sportlings from them. |