hatchling
noun/ˈhæt͡ʃlɪŋ/
Etymology From hatch + -ling. Sense 2 in reference to the term crack one's egg (“realize one is transgender”).
1
A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.
- The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.
- Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 90:
2
A person who has (especially recently) realized that they are transgender.
Transgender slang
- Derived terms
- posthatchling