rooklingn.
/ˈrʊklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrʊklɪŋ/ Now rare.
A young rook, a rook chick; = rooklet n.
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1786 Berwick Mus. Aug. 413/2 No disturbance happens till the rooklings are nearly fledged.
a1804 J. Tobin Honey Moon (1805) iii. iii. 50 Like a nest of new-wak'd rooklings..They caw for provender.
1854 Zoologist 12 4325 An attack is regularly made upon the rooklings by the..gamekeeper.
a1901 E. E. Bowen in W. E. Bowen Edward Bowen: Mem. (1902) 398 Rooklings' joys Are worry and noise.
1942 ‘BB’ Little Grey Men iii. 37 Only a sleepy ‘caw, caw’ told of a wakeful rookling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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