gnatling

noun

gnatling

noun

Etymology From gnat + -ling.

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Poetic A tiny gnat.

the world's tiniest bat, which was smaller than a gnatling[…]2012, Jason Hurlburt, Herstory:
A gnatling's wind gives all its frame to ſigh1782, James Elphinston, The Epigrams of M. Val. Martial:

1 more example

[…]attack these gnatlings in their neſt1761, Charles Churchill, The Rosciad:

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