Flipperling

//ˈflɪpəlɪŋ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A young seal. literary, rare

    "1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review. Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!"

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"1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review. Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!"

Etymology

From flipper + -ling.

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