Monsterling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small or young monster.

    ""They will know something is wrong, for the brute would not willingly have left her side. Odd that it did not fight you." The blunt-nose, slope-browed face of the monsterling was inscrutable, scarlet eyes inhuman and feral in the glow of the fire."

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""They will know something is wrong, for the brute would not willingly have left her side. Odd that it did not fight you." The blunt-nose, slope-browed face of the monsterling was inscrutable, scarlet eyes inhuman and feral in the glow of the fire."

Etymology

From monster + -ling.

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