Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A newly weaned child or young animal.
- adj. Newly weaned.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A child or young animal newly weaned.
- Recently weaned.
Wiktionary
- n. Any young mammal that has been recently weaned.
- n. Specifically, a human child that has been recently weaned.
- n. Specifically, a young horse that has been weaned from its mother, but is less than one year old (usually 5-12 months old).
GNU Webster's 1913
- a. & n. from wean, v.
- n. A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.
- adj. Recently weaned.
Examples
“Hugh Fitzsimons purchased the bay Texas-bred weanling, which is a full-sister to Valid Message, winner of the Skyy El Joven Stakes at Retama Park and the Sunny's Halo Stakes at Louisiana Downs in 2008.”
“Surely I have smoothed and quieted my soul: like a weanling on his mother's (breast), like a weanling is my soul within me. ”
“He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother.”
“Bred by the partnership of Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, Giant Ryan was not Breeders' Cup nominated as a weanling.”
The Huffington Post: Liz O'Connell: A Pair of "Neighborhood Kids" to Run in the Breeders' Cup
“A thoroughbred weanling rested its head on another horse near Denman, New South Wales, Australia, Sunday.”
“On a weanling shoat he'd earlier noticed rooting among the fallen apples beneath this favorite of all his trees.”
“Little Larky's weanling, yearling and two-year-old years were unremarkable.”
The Huffington Post: Liz O'Connell: You Can Bet on Little Larky
“Into the old farmhouse I tottered, like a weanling child, with mother in her common clothes, helping me along, yet fearing, except by stealth, to look at me.”
“It was not even yet a weanling and would wither and die without a mother.”
“He hath broken the power of thine host, and the world hath not seen his like for stoutness; and withal he is but little more than a weanling.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘weanling’.
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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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A Nuncheon of Random Palavery
Yet another "random palavery" list of words that catch my eye or attention for whatever reason. No specific theme here.
causeuse, charientism, cheiloproclitic, phony umbrage, marathon of phony..., colpsinquanonia, concilliabule, emunction, liripip, qualtagh, hemiumbrage, umbrage-lite and 139 more...
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How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 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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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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equestrian
paddock, canter, bridle, stirrup, colt, foal, stallion, filly, mare, gelding, weanling, yearling and 10 more...
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-ling
sapling, inkling, changeling, sheiling, quisling, seedling, darkling, starling, dwindling, darling, starveling, riesling and 6 more...
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ling-o
popeling, reckling, wiseling, witling, wormling, wreckling, wolfling, witherling, whigling, whelpling, weedling, weanling and 4 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...
Tweets
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kjola a young horse that has just been weaned from their mother (usually 6 months or a little older) Apr 20, 2009