fawnling

noun

fawnling

noun

Etymology From fawn + -ling.

1

A small, young, or baby fawn.

Slay not that my musk-deer fawnling, Hunter! Prithee, have thou shame Of her night-black eye nor bind her With thy lasso long and strait.2012, John Payne Hafiz, The Collected Poems of Hafiz:

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