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Flightling

noun

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Noun

1
One who flees or takes flight; an escapee, fugitive, or refugee.
"We were the witnesses not of a few handsful of casual flightlings, but of the general exodus of the inhabitants of a whole territory."
2
A young or little flyer (person or creature that flies).
"In that country style place with an abundant garden the lady of the house would put special toast slices, a nutty high-grain variety dried to an ideal texture for birds, out for the collection of flightlings that attended the daily garden feast."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From flight (“fleeing”) + -ling. Cognate with West Frisian flechtling (“refugee”), Dutch vluchteling (“refugee”), German Low German Flüchtling (“refugee”), German Flüchtling (“refugee”). Compare also Danish flygtning (“refugee”), Swedish flykting (“refugee”), Norwegian flyktning (“refugee”).

Etymology 2

From flight (“flying”) + -ling.

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