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giftling

noun

giftling

noun

Etymology From gift + -ling.

1

A little gift.

  • You young ladies, may you have plucked pretty giftlings from it; and out of the cracker sugar-plum which you have split with the captain or the sweet young curate may you have read one of those delicious conundrums which the confectioners introduce into the sweetmeats […]1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers:

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