Sportling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. archaic, poetic

    "When again the lambkins play — Pretty sportlings, full of May."

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"When again the lambkins play — Pretty sportlings, full of May."

Etymology

From sport + -ling.

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