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Tenderling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone made tender by too much kindness or lassitude; a fondling or softie. archaic

    "Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses."

  2. 2
    One of the first antlers of a deer.

Etymology

From tender + -ling.

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