Citations:vampling

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English citations of vampling

Noun: "(informal) a newly-turned or fledgling vampire"

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  • 2004, David Sosnowski, Vamped[1], page 186:
    It was usually right after these conversations that my brand-new vamplings got their first glimpse of how fast their fellow vampires can heal.
  • 2008, Jes Battis, Night Child[2], page 337:
    You're a powerful vamp, Sabine, and you knew all the dark, dirty secrets for making a new vampling. You knew how to sire someone and make it last, even if it was forbidden.
  • 2011, Meredith Allard, Her Dear & Loving Husband[3], page 201:
    "How do you know my name? How do you know anything about me? I haven't seen you since that night?"
    "I've been keeping track. I like to know what becomes of my vamplings after they're turned."
  • 2011, Kristen L. Painter, Out for Blood[4], page 337:
    “No, cara mia. You are a vampling. The chance that you would drink too much and harm the comar is too great. I stay.”
  • 2020, Angela Roquet, Out for Blood[5], unnumbered page:
    Vampling bloodlust was worse than puberty. I was green enough to recall my own cringe-worthy growing pains —my recent cow blood confession, case in point.
  • 2020, Monica La Porta, An Immortal Valentine's Day[6], unnumbered page:
    His beautiful, brave Martina had been vampling for almost a year and was starting to show the first signs of transformation into a full-fledged vampire.
  • 2023, Kay Widow, Bloody Bilionaire[7], unnumbered page:
    But then again, Quinn was far older than a vampling. He was experienced. He was wise.

Noun: "(informal, derogatory) a contemptible or insignificant vampire"

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  • 2016, Marcus V. Calvert, Unheroic: Book I[8], page 337:
    Whoever created the nest controlled every subordinate vampire within it. Someone new — like the little girl — was at the bottom of the hierarchy. Given time and a bunch of new converts, she would’ve been able to bend newer vamplings to her will.
  • 2016, Keri Arthur, Flameout[9], page 285:
    “And De Luca’s vamplings blame us for his murder,” Jackson snapped. “Don’t suppose you want to correct that piece of misinformation, do you?”
  • 2022, Kinsley Adams, Marrying Dracula[10], unnumbered page:
    "Your reputation is already quite tarnished in our community. You are the vampling who killed Petrik and Michel. []
  • 2022, Renee Joiner, Her Dark Pleasure[11], unnumbered page:
    If this is some sort of trap and you've played your part to get me all the way out here alone with my guard down, then just know that in the unlikely event the vamplings you call a coven do manage to kill me, I will bend my insurmountable will toward taking you with me into the black.”
  • 2023, Kendra Moreno, Philomena And The Seven Deaths[12], unnumbered page:
    "We're not looking for trouble," Otto hisses. "I suggest you head back home, vampling."
  • 2023 August 3, Larian Studios (developer), Adam Smith (lead writer), Baldur's Gate 3, →OCLC, scene: speaking to Raphael with Astarion at Last Light Inn:
    If you're hoping to taste my blood, little vampling, think again.

Noun: "(informal) a vampire child"

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  • 2010, Geoffrey H. Goodwin, “Are You A Vampire or a Goblin?”, in Ekaterina Sedia, editor, Running with the Pack[13], page 208:
    Yvette dreamed of being a mother, envisioning her children as a bouncing brood of vamplings or gobblekins.
  • 2011, Catherine Coulter, Prince of Ravenscar[14], page 402:
    Roxanne was pregnant, Devlin had written to him, and they were looking forward to bringing a new vampling into the world, and Julian could see the two of them laughing as they sampled this new word.