Wombling
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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