strangeling

noun

strangeling

noun

Etymology From strange + -ling.

1

One who is strange, foreign, or unusual; stranger.

  • Every strangeling ( Fremdling) has gone through a coming-to-terms with the mother, but has another such ahead: ... An inner voice holds the strangeling back from blasphemy against his own origin, even though he is filled with rebellion.2000, Zafer Şenocak, Leslie A. Adelson, Atlas of a Tropical Germany:
Synonyms
kook, odd duck, weirdling, alien, outlander, stranger

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