nestlingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/

Forms: see nestle v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also 1600s neastling.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nestle v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < nestle v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare early modern Dutch nestelinge (Dutch nesteling).

1. The action of nestle v.¹ (in various senses).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter > nest > nest-making

nestling1440

nidulation1646

nidification1658

nesting1767

nestage1865

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > nesting place

nestling1625

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 354 Nestelynge, Nidificacio.

1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.ii Nestling of verlettes..Make[s] many a rich man, to shet vp his doores.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 279 That the Birds may haue more Scope, and Naturall Nestling.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 24 Previous..to laying, the work of nestling becomes the common care.

1816 L. Hunt Story of Rimini iii. 409 Places of nestling green, for poets made.

1957 Economist 21 Sept. 911/1 In the task of nestling up to the Grand Alliance,..and in the advertising of that nestling up.

1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 51 Cocooning conjured up images of hanging out. Nestling. Cuddling. Enjoying ourselves in our own homes.

†2. The nestling place of. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > [noun] > where a thing is formed or settled

nestling1605

nidus1717

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ll1^v The Secresies of the Passages, and the seats or neastling of the humours.

Compounds

† nestling ground n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1871 Game Laws N.Y. in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 19 No person shall kill..any wild pigeon while on its nestling ground or..in any manner disturb such nestling ground.

nestling place n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > nest or bird defined by > [noun] > place for

nestling place1589

nesting site1870

nesting station1882

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > other dwelling places > [noun] > secluded or retreat

nestling place1589

hermitage1648

burrow1650

eyrie1794

nookery1824

love nest1853

nest1865

embowering1882

1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks i. 14 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Crowes..glad in nestling places hie Do make a chattering.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 152 I plainly perceiv'd on the cushion, the marks of a plenteous effusion.., and already had his sluggard member run up to its old nestling-place, and ensconc'd itself again.

1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 337 Infants..peering out from their nestling place in a hood.

1972 J. Montague Song in Coll. Poems (1995) I. 118 Two swans startled me turning low over the Lee, looking for a nestling place.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nestlingn.²

Brit.

/ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/

Forms: see nest n. and -ling suffix¹; also Scottish 1800s– nessling, 1900s– nesling.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: nest n., -ling suffix¹.

Etymology: < nest n. + -ling suffix¹, probably cognate with (or perhaps after) Middle Dutch nestlinc young bird still in its nest (Dutch nestling (as hunting term) a young bird of prey captured from its nest and trained for hunting), German Nestling nestling.

a. A young bird which is not yet old enough to leave the nest.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > young bird > [noun] > nestling(s)

nestlingc1450

birdling1611

nestler1611

broodling1673

gorlin1721

nest-matea1834

broodlet1866

downy1911

nidicole1962

c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) 934 (MED) Suche a noise of nestlingz ne so swete notz I herde not þis halfe yere.

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 73 Þ^e nedy nestlingis..busked fro þe busches and breris þat hem noyed.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Niais A neastling.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nestlings, Canary-Birds, brought up by hand.

1773 G. White Let. 15 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 96 These small weak birds, some of which were nestlings twelve days ago.

1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 260 The mother bird had moved not But cowering o'er her nestlings, Sate.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 62 We forget how largely these songsters,..or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 444 Near a bird-berg one sometimes sees an almost continuous flight of kittiwakes and the like, each with a silvery sand-eel in its mouth—a small contribution to the nestling's appetite.

1979 C. Milne Path through Trees II. iii. 256 The young owl was a mere nestling, covered with fluffy down and many weeks from being able to fly.

1994 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 40/2 Sometimes called a fish eagle and possessing a wingspan nearly two metres wide, this hard worker has to feed its nestlings a kilo of fish each a day.

b. In extended use.

ΚΠ

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. N3^v A Slaunderer, is an vnflidge nestlinge vnable to flye.

1693 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (1834) iii. xxxviii. 317 Nestling, ninny and youngling fool.

1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. xi. 216 ‘Here is something hard lurking in this soft nest. Come forth, I say, little nestling!’... It was a gold ring.

1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island xxvii. 228 I was afraid they'd come back. And then our jolly little nest here would be broken up—and we poor callow nestlings thrown out on the cruel world of boarding-houses again.

†2. The youngest child of a family. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > youngest child

nestling1572

reckling1611

swill-pough1611

nestle-tripe1616

nest-cock1674

pin basket1706

poke-shakings1808

mother's pet1819

afterthought1891

1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 388 Bartye Andersonne..was the nestlynge of all her doughters childre.

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. ii. 31 Second brothers, and poore nestlings, Whom more iniurious Nature later brings Into the naked world.

1853 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond 160 (note) His mother could give but a scanty portion to the nestling of her family.

Compounds

General attributive.

ΚΠ

1770 G. White Jrnl. 10 Oct. (1970) iii. 31 Several very young nestling swallows with square tails.

1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 325 I have taken four young ones from a hen skylark, and placed in their room five nestling nightingales.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 166 The attempt in a nestling bird to sing, may be exactly compared with the imperfect endeavour of a child to talk.

1860 All Year Round 7 July 295 The nestling cuckoo ungratefully ejects his legitimate foster-brethren out of the family nest.

1938 Brit. Birds 31 292 A party of men..undertake the unpleasant voyage to Sula Sgeir and stay there a few days, taking all the gugas, or nestling Gannets, they can.

1991 Birder's World Oct. 31/1 After the eggs hatch, the female feeds the nestling hummingbirds a mixture of nectar and small arthopods.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† nestlingn.³

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nestle v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < nestle v.² + -ing suffix¹.

Obsolete. rare.

Fidgeting; uneasy behaviour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > restlessness > [noun] > restless movement

friggingc1560

fidget1674

nestling1699

fidge1728

fidgetiness1792

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) What a nestling you keep, how restless and uneasy you are.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

nestlingadj.

Brit.

/ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nestle v.¹, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < nestle v.¹ + -ing suffix².

That nestles (nestle v.¹).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden > lying half-hidden

nestlinga1821

the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [adjective] > characterized by or inviting snuggling

nestling1863

snuggly1928

a1821 J. Keats Poet. Wks. (1907) 295 I've left my little queen, Her languid arms in silver slumber lying: Ah! through their nestling touch, Who—who could tell now much There is for madness—cruel, or complying?

1839 H. W. Longfellow Voices of Night Prel. viii When nestling buds unfold their wings.

1846 C. Dickens Battle of Life i. 6 In the nestling town among the trees.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. Proem 2 The rosy warmth of nestling children.

1993 E. Mildmay Lucker & Tiffany peel Out (BNC) 123 In a bumper like a whale's bottom lip, a nestling licence plate states ‘Don't Give a Shit’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1440

n.²c1450

n.³1699

adj.a1821

单词	nestling
释义	nestlingn.¹ Brit. /ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/ Forms: see nestle v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also 1600s neastling. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nestle v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < nestle v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare early modern Dutch nestelinge (Dutch nesteling). 1. The action of nestle v.¹ (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter > nest > nest-making nestling1440 nidulation1646 nidification1658 nesting1767 nestage1865 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > nesting place nestling1625 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 354 Nestelynge, Nidificacio. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.ii Nestling of verlettes..Make[s] many a rich man, to shet vp his doores. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 279 That the Birds may haue more Scope, and Naturall Nestling. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 24 Previous..to laying, the work of nestling becomes the common care. 1816 L. Hunt Story of Rimini iii. 409 Places of nestling green, for poets made. 1957 Economist 21 Sept. 911/1 In the task of nestling up to the Grand Alliance,..and in the advertising of that nestling up. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 51 Cocooning conjured up images of hanging out. Nestling. Cuddling. Enjoying ourselves in our own homes. †2. The nestling place of. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > where a thing is formed or settled nestling1605 nidus1717 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ll1^v The Secresies of the Passages, and the seats or neastling of the humours. View more context for this quotation Compounds † nestling ground n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1871 Game Laws N.Y. in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 19 No person shall kill..any wild pigeon while on its nestling ground or..in any manner disturb such nestling ground. nestling place n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > nest or bird defined by > [noun] > place for nestling place1589 nesting site1870 nesting station1882 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > other dwelling places > [noun] > secluded or retreat nestling place1589 hermitage1648 burrow1650 eyrie1794 nookery1824 love nest1853 nest1865 embowering1882 1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks i. 14 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Crowes..glad in nestling places hie Do make a chattering. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 152 I plainly perceiv'd on the cushion, the marks of a plenteous effusion.., and already had his sluggard member run up to its old nestling-place, and ensconc'd itself again. 1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 337 Infants..peering out from their nestling place in a hood. 1972 J. Montague Song in Coll. Poems (1995) I. 118 Two swans startled me turning low over the Lee, looking for a nestling place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nestlingn.² Brit. /ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/ Forms: see nest n. and -ling suffix¹; also Scottish 1800s– nessling, 1900s– nesling. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: nest n., -ling suffix¹. Etymology: < nest n. + -ling suffix¹, probably cognate with (or perhaps after) Middle Dutch nestlinc young bird still in its nest (Dutch nestling (as hunting term) a young bird of prey captured from its nest and trained for hunting), German Nestling nestling. 1. a. A young bird which is not yet old enough to leave the nest. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > young bird > [noun] > nestling(s) nestlingc1450 birdling1611 nestler1611 broodling1673 gorlin1721 nest-matea1834 broodlet1866 downy1911 nidicole1962 c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) 934 (MED) Suche a noise of nestlingz ne so swete notz I herde not þis halfe yere. c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 73 Þ^e nedy nestlingis..busked fro þe busches and breris þat hem noyed. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Niais A neastling. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nestlings, Canary-Birds, brought up by hand. 1773 G. White Let. 15 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 96 These small weak birds, some of which were nestlings twelve days ago. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 260 The mother bird had moved not But cowering o'er her nestlings, Sate. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 62 We forget how largely these songsters,..or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 444 Near a bird-berg one sometimes sees an almost continuous flight of kittiwakes and the like, each with a silvery sand-eel in its mouth—a small contribution to the nestling's appetite. 1979 C. Milne Path through Trees II. iii. 256 The young owl was a mere nestling, covered with fluffy down and many weeks from being able to fly. 1994 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 40/2 Sometimes called a fish eagle and possessing a wingspan nearly two metres wide, this hard worker has to feed its nestlings a kilo of fish each a day. b. In extended use. ΚΠ 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. N3^v A Slaunderer, is an vnflidge nestlinge vnable to flye. 1693 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (1834) iii. xxxviii. 317 Nestling, ninny and youngling fool. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. xi. 216 ‘Here is something hard lurking in this soft nest. Come forth, I say, little nestling!’... It was a gold ring. 1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island xxvii. 228 I was afraid they'd come back. And then our jolly little nest here would be broken up—and we poor callow nestlings thrown out on the cruel world of boarding-houses again. †2. The youngest child of a family. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > youngest child nestling1572 reckling1611 swill-pough1611 nestle-tripe1616 nest-cock1674 pin basket1706 poke-shakings1808 mother's pet1819 afterthought1891 1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 388 Bartye Andersonne..was the nestlynge of all her doughters childre. 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. ii. 31 Second brothers, and poore nestlings, Whom more iniurious Nature later brings Into the naked world. 1853 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond 160 (note) His mother could give but a scanty portion to the nestling of her family. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1770 G. White Jrnl. 10 Oct. (1970) iii. 31 Several very young nestling swallows with square tails. 1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 325 I have taken four young ones from a hen skylark, and placed in their room five nestling nightingales. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 166 The attempt in a nestling bird to sing, may be exactly compared with the imperfect endeavour of a child to talk. 1860 All Year Round 7 July 295 The nestling cuckoo ungratefully ejects his legitimate foster-brethren out of the family nest. 1938 Brit. Birds 31 292 A party of men..undertake the unpleasant voyage to Sula Sgeir and stay there a few days, taking all the gugas, or nestling Gannets, they can. 1991 Birder's World Oct. 31/1 After the eggs hatch, the female feeds the nestling hummingbirds a mixture of nectar and small arthopods. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † nestlingn.³ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nestle v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < nestle v.² + -ing suffix¹. Obsolete. rare. Fidgeting; uneasy behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > restlessness > [noun] > restless movement friggingc1560 fidget1674 nestling1699 fidge1728 fidgetiness1792 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) What a nestling you keep, how restless and uneasy you are. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018). nestlingadj. Brit. /ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnɛs(t)lɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nestle v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < nestle v.¹ + -ing suffix². That nestles (nestle v.¹). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden > lying half-hidden nestlinga1821 the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [adjective] > characterized by or inviting snuggling nestling1863 snuggly1928 a1821 J. Keats Poet. Wks. (1907) 295 I've left my little queen, Her languid arms in silver slumber lying: Ah! through their nestling touch, Who—who could tell now much There is for madness—cruel, or complying? 1839 H. W. Longfellow Voices of Night Prel. viii When nestling buds unfold their wings. 1846 C. Dickens Battle of Life i. 6 In the nestling town among the trees. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. Proem 2 The rosy warmth of nestling children. 1993 E. Mildmay Lucker & Tiffany peel Out (BNC) 123 In a bumper like a whale's bottom lip, a nestling licence plate states ‘Don't Give a Shit’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1440n.²c1450n.³1699adj.a1821
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