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单词 weanling
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weanlingn.adj.

Brit. /ˈwiːnlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwinlɪŋ/
Forms: Also 1500s wayneling, weynling, wenling, 1500s–1600s wain(e)ling.
Etymology: < wean v. + -ling suffix1.
A. n.
A young child or animal newly weaned.
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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > weanling
weanling1532
the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > young > weaned
weanyer1524
weanling1532
spaneling1577
1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 9 §1 Diuers persons..haue vsed..to kille yonge beastes, called waynelinges, steres, bullockes, and hesters, of one or two yeres old.
1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. lxxix I am a weanlynge in very dede.
1550 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1905) 5 Yf any of them have two kyne or wenlings.
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Eclogs i. 2 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks The tender weanlings of our sheepe.
1614 S. Rowlands Fooles Bolt soone Shott D 2 b Mens Children went not then to write and read As euery weaneling now a dayes must do.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. viii. 58 Calves are either Sucklings or Wainlings.
1710 D. Hilman Tusser Rediv. Dec. (1744) 145 By this Stanza it seems as though he recommended the Housing of Weanlings.
1883 O. W. Holmes in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 322 Is it a weanling's weakness for the past That..Still keeps our gray old chapel's name of ‘King's’?
1916 K. J. Saunders Adventures Christian Soul 24 Akbar..shut up a score of weanlings away from all contact with adults.
figurative.1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings L 4 b The other starre here meant, is called Luciferum, Venus her owne starre, to whom bawdes are wont to complaine, when they were deceiued or robbed of any of their sequestred weanlings.
B. adj.
Recently weaned.
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weanling1638
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 214 I doubted some weanling-calves I had wanted water.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 469 Hermes..Whose shrine with weanling lambs he wont to load.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. xxiii. 329 Into the old farm-house I tottered, like a weanling child.
figurative.1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. vii. 186 That part of his pastoral duty he wisely leaves to weanling laymen.1871 A. C. Swinburne Eve of Revol. in Songs before Sunrise 57 Breasts that bare Our fathers' generations, whereat lay The weanling peoples and the tribes that were.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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