Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hareling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: harel-ing
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young or diminutive hare.

Example Sentences

"I'm coming, I'm coming, the nice old stoat, who is so fond of tender harelings."
"In central Finland first-year children are greeted with "Hello, big-eyed, long eared harelings", using a dialect word for a young hare born in August, […]"
"The family's proliferating rabbit population was memorialized in The Hareling, a children's book done as a cottage project, with Ed producing the text - about a newborn rabbit found in the fields — to accompany Helene's drawings."
"The hare, the hare-kin, Old Big-bum, Old Bouchart, The hare-ling, the frisky one, […]"

Etymology

From hare + -ling.

Inflected Forms

harelings (plural) hare-ling (alternative)

Questions

What does hareling mean?: A young or diminutive hare.
Where does hareling come from?: From hare + -ling.

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