houndling

noun

houndling

noun

Etymology From hound + -ling.

1

A small or young hound.

  • Kidlings thus, and the goats I beheld, and the hound and the houndling, Alike in the make: wonder were not the greater and small I compar'd, Vainly, for Rome, magnificent Rome!1840, The Gentleman's magazine, volume 169, page 406:

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