luckling

noun

noun

Etymology From luck + -ling.

One favoured by luck or fortune.

And how excessive is the conceit likely to be of the few inordinately flattered lucklings of an hour, on a single day in July last, in Saratoga!1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher:
Our little lambkin, waxwing, luckling, all the cordial choir are Noah-calling you now: [...]2007, Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth:

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