luckling

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From luck +‎ -ling.

Noun[edit]

luckling (plural lucklings)

  1. One favoured by luck or fortune.
    • 1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher:
      And how excessive is the conceit likely to be of the few inordinately flattered lucklings of an hour, on a single day in July last, in Saratoga!
    • 2007, Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth:
      Our little lambkin, waxwing, luckling, all the cordial choir are Noah-calling you now: [...]