Wombling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An unborn or recently born child; fetus. rare

    "Aith is also a Kiln, that very important cooking or preparing place, from which the figures of all the old clay-formed gods came, no less than womblings or children, inasmuch as this word springs from the Gothic "Kilthei, the womb,” […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of womble form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"Aith is also a Kiln, that very important cooking or preparing place, from which the figures of all the old clay-formed gods came, no less than womblings or children, inasmuch as this word springs from the Gothic "Kilthei, the womb,” […]"

Etymology

From womb + -ling.

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