Freshling

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An inexperienced person; a neophyte.

    "Mere freshlings are they, blank of brow, / Who read not how / Its prime had passed before / Their raw equipments, scenes, and says / Afflicted its memoried face, / That had seen every larger phase / Of human ways / Before these filled the place."

Adjective
  1. 1
    freshly grown not-comparable, poetic

    "There comes the gentle steps of spring / So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing / Fanning the freshling hedges there"

Example

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"There comes the gentle steps of spring / So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing / Fanning the freshling hedges there"

Etymology

From fresh + -ling.

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