Beaverling

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small, young, or juvenile beaver. diminutive

    "The wife stumbled into the water, and as soon as her loot was wet, she immediately resumed her old shape as a beaver, her son became a beaverling, and the brooklet, changing to a roaring river, bore them to the lake."

Example

More examples

"The wife stumbled into the water, and as soon as her loot was wet, she immediately resumed her old shape as a beaver, her son became a beaverling, and the brooklet, changing to a roaring river, bore them to the lake."

Etymology

From beaver + -ling.

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