Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little lamb.
  • noun One treated as gently as a lamb; one fondly cherished.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small lamb.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A young lamb, a very young sheep.
  • noun A term of endearment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a very young lamb

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Examples

  • I looked up at the woolly lambkin clouds and felt a chill.

    Third Strike Philip R. Craig 2007

  • I looked up at the woolly lambkin clouds and felt a chill.

    Third Strike Philip R. Craig 2007

  • Well, well, lambkin, (which the foolish often calls me,) if I was in his place, he should not have his property in you long questionable.

    Pamela 2006

  • Why, lambkin, said she, what dost thou think thyself? —

    Pamela 2006

  • Then how will the tongue of the pretty lambkin bleat out innocence, and virtue, and honesty, till the whole trial be at an end! —

    Pamela 2006

  • Poor lambkin, arriving with naught but a pair of old-fashioned gowns to wear.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • Poor lambkin, arriving with naught but a pair of old-fashioned gowns to wear.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • Now, when she hath thus completely armed our hero to carry on a war with man, she never fails of furnishing that innocent lambkin with some means of knowing his enemy, and foreseeing his designs.

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • Poor lambkin, arriving with naught but a pair of old-fashioned gowns to wear.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • When the cook heard that the lambkin could speak and said such sad words to the fish down below, he was terrified and thought this could be no common lamb, but must be bewitched by the wicked woman in the house.

    Household Tales 2003

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