deviling

noun

deviling

noun

Etymology From devil + -ling.

1

A small or young devil.

  • Away French ſtallion, now you have a Barbary mare of your own, go leap her, and engender young devillings.1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Knight of Malta”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 95, column 2:

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