doveling

English

Etymology

From dove +‎ -ling.

Noun

doveling (plural dovelings)

1. A young or baby dove.
   • 1914, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona:

     On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings.

   • 2007, Lucretia Cole, The King of Amphiboly:

     She began to wring her hands. "Oh, my poor doomed dovelings . . . my darling star-crossed daughters . . ."

   • 2007, César Vallejo, Clayton Eshleman, The Complete Poetry:

     Their guan beaks, coupled dovelings, the poorotten, leafing their livers, nieces of the cloud . . . Life! Life! This is life!

Synonyms

• dovelet, squab

Translations

a baby dove

• Classical Nahuatl: huīlōconētl
• Polish: gołębię (pl) n
• Romanian: pui de porumbel m