Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

doveling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dovel-ing
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young or baby dove.

Example Sentences

"On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings."
"She began to wring her hands. "Oh, my poor doomed dovelings . . . my darling star-crossed daughters . . .""
"Their guan beaks, coupled dovelings, the poorotten, leafing their livers, nieces of the cloud . . . Life! Life! This is life!"

Etymology

From dove + -ling.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: dove

Inflected Forms

dovelings (plural)

Synonyms

dovelet squab

Questions

What does doveling mean?: A young or baby dove.
Where does doveling come from?: From dove + -ling.

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