Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bird too young to leave its nest.
- n. A young child.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of making a nest or going to nest; the act of settling or cuddling down.
- n. A nest or nestling-place.
- n. A young bird in the nest, or just from the nest.
- n. The smallest bird in the nest; the weakest of the brood.
- Being still a nestling; being yet in the nest.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.
- n. obsolete A nest; a receptacle.
- adj. Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.
WordNet 3.0
- n. young bird not yet fledged
- n. a young person of either sex
Examples
“Semi-consciously she half-turned on her side, curved her free arm on the pillow and nestled her head on it, and drew her body up in nestling curves in the way Dick knew she loved to sleep.”
“He picked out another nestling from the young brood, and again sailed away.”
“I thought the idea of nestling an arena inside four towers was really, really interesting, and I thought it would have been a really exciting project.”
“One more question," stalled Ariakas, the hilt of his sword nestling comfortably in his palm.”
“So we shouldn't be surprised to find this set drooling over the prospect of "nestling" in the public sector, particularly the K-12 education "market.”
The Huffington Post: Brian Jones: Karl Marx: Teacher of the Year?
“This will help keep the silverware from "nestling," but please note the knives should be placed with the blade down and handle up as a safety precaution.”
“But nothing more came, and the old gentleman droned on about other things till poor Ben felt that he must either go to sleep like the Squire, or tip the stool over by accident, since "nestling" was forbidden, and relief of some sort he _must_ have.”
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated
“The magazine covers showed the couple nestling on a blanket at the beach and loaded with shopping bags on Rodeo Drive.”
“Another close-up, this time two flowers nestling together.”
Vignettes from the K-State Gardens « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
“There was even a half moon nestling in the fronds of a palm tree above us.”
The Guardian: Egypt protests: The feeling in Tahrir Square was one of disbelief
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nestling’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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Things Avian
Wordies relating to birdies. :-)
calidrid, corvid, avian, avifauna, beak, brood, aerie, altricial, albumen, winged, wattle, covey and 217 more...
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Baby Animals
chick, crocklets, whelp, foal, duckling, eaglet, hatchling, fingerling, fry, polliwog, gosling, cheeper and 21 more...
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few, small or little words
pauciloquoys
few, paucity, poco, parvovirus, paraffin, pauper, poor, poverty, depauperate, impoverish, foal, filly and 80 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
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baby bird
chick, poult, gosling, cygnet, duckling, eaglet, nestling, fledgling, specious
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Michał G
Moja Lista
Obok Angielskich wyrazów będe pisał tłumaczenie o jakie mi chodziło.conclusion, stumble, ratio, codfish, establish, nestling, unauthorised, investigation
Tweets
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