chargeling

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

charge +‎ -ling

Noun[edit]

chargeling (plural chargelings)

  1. A little or young charge (person in the care of another).
    • 2005, David Farrell Krell, The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God, page 218:
      Suddenly he was deprived of his job, his chargelings, whom he loved, and Diotima herself.
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