tenderlingn.
/ˈtɛndəlɪŋ/ 1. A delicate person or creature; contemptuously, an effeminate person. Now rare.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man
badlingeOE
milksopc1390
cockneyc1405
malkina1425
molla1425
weakling1526
tenderling1541
softling1543
niceling1549
woman-man1567
cocknel1570
effeminate1583
androgyne1587
meacock1590
mammaday1593
hermaphrodite1594
midwife1596
nimfadoro1600
night-sneaker1611
mock-mana1625
nan1670
she-man1675
petit maître1711
old woman1717
master-miss1754
Miss Molly1754
molly1785
squaw1805
mollycoddle1823
Miss Nancy1824
mollycot1826
molly mop1829
poof1833
Margery?c1855
ladyboy1857
girl1862
Mary Ann1868
sissy1879
milk1881
pretty-boy1881
nancy1888
poofter1889
Nancy Dawson1890
softie1895
puff1902
pussy1904
Lizzie1905
nance1910
quean1910
maricon1921
pie-face1922
bitch1923
Jessie1923
lily1923
tapette1923
pansy1926
nancy boy1927
nelly1931
femme1932
ponce1932
queerie1933
palone1934
queenie1935
girlie-man1940
swish1941
puss1942
wonk1945
mother1947
candy-ass1953
twink1953
cream puff1958
pronk1959
swishy1959
limp wrist1960
pansy-ass1963
weeny1963
poofteroo1966
mo1968
shim1973
twinkie1977
woofter1977
cake boy1992
hermaphrodite-
1541 M. Coverdale tr. H. Bullinger Christen State Matrimonye f. lxxiiiv The more gorgyouse tenderlynges they be, the better shall they please their heade the deuyll.
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 9 As for the talkes of some fyne fyngred tendrelinges, they are not worth the hearing.
a1627 W. Sclater Brief Comm. Malachy (1650) 123 Those tenderlings unused to hardship, how doth a little affright them?
1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. v. 29 Persons, accustomed to be buffetted by storms..much exceed the inactive fireside tenderling.
2. A person of tender years; a young child.
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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun]
childOE
baban?c1225
fauntekin1377
infant1382
babea1393
fauntelet1393
babyc1400
lakinc1440
mop1440
chrisomer1574
tenderling1587
chrisom1596
childling1648
flosculet1648
bratling1652
lullaby-cheat1665
strangera1674
child (also infant, baby) in armsa1675
hoppet1695
tot1725
bambino1761
weanie1786
tiny1797
dot1800
trudgeon1814
toddle1825
toddles1828
yearnling1829
dab1833
toddler1837
baba1841
arrival1846
teeny-tiny1849
toddlekins1852
mite1853
trot1854
babelet1856
nestler1866
spoon-child1868
bubby1885
chavvy1886
bub1889
kiddy1889
toddleskin1890
newborn1893
kidlet1899
kidling1899
bubba1906
bundle of joy1924
liddly1929
mammet1932
snork1941
kiddywink1957
sproglet1987
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 628/1 The verie tenderlings, who might appeare to be toward and teachable.
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxiii. 348 His Highnesse then a Tenderling.
1889 G. Massey Babe Christabel in Poems 13 They [angels] snatched our little tenderling, So shyly opening into view.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > knob forming beginning or tip of
broach1575
button1575
croche1575
tenderlings1575
bud1593
peg1611
scrotcher1611
seal1611
velvet tip1638
crocket1870
offer1884
nubbin1978
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xlii. 129 The Noombles, handes and tenderlings (which are the soft toppes of his hornes when they are in bloud) doe pertayne to the Prime or chiefe personage.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 189/1.
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