hushling
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hushling (plural not attested)
- a term of endearment
- 1911, Charles Joseph MacConaghy Phillips, Back Home:
- Had borne her life-companion to the grave;
And by her smiled the new-made mother, proud
To show her hushling baby to the women,
While sage advice was poured into her ears, […]
- 1930, The wild swan:
- Sleep, hushling, sleep ;
Peace, restless one ;
Arms for a cradle,
My little son !
- 1953, Harold Vinal, Voices - Issues 150-155:
- Make haste then, hushling, have a suppliant's care
To claim what falls your way compassionate,
A beggar's ransom, […]
- 2010, Mike Allen, Marie Brennan, Tori Truslow, Clockwork Phoenix 3:
- The other crows call her sweetling and hushling, and give her cigarette ends to put in her little bag.