ladyling

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of ladyling

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A young, petite, or unimportant lady.
    “I now found what was the stimulus proper to excite and arouse fashionable people, such as lordlings and ladylings, for of both had I specimens, was a row of card-tables, to which, after swallowing a cup of tea, [...]”
    “All the rest of the place is detestable. But none of these once favourite receptacles have been blest by violent overflows — at least, of visiters — this year. No ; — my lord and my lady, and my lordling and my ladyling, all go abroad: [...]”
    “I bid them dance, I bid them sing, For the limpid glance Of my ladyling; For the gift to the Spring of a dewier Spring, For God's good grace of this ladyling!”

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Etymology

From lady + -ling. Compare lordling.

Anagrams of ladyling

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