homeling

English

Etymology

home +‎ -ling

Noun

homeling (plural homelings)

1. (obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
   • 1857, Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries:

     […] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.

References

• “homeling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.