lambkin
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈlæm.kɪn/
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corderito
- Hit away, lambkins.
- a little lambkin
So it was Bah and she was Bev and then I was my but yeah, Bah, that's how she'd call him, like a, like a lamb, a little lambkins.
- So it was Bah and she was Bev and then I was my but yeah, Bah, that's how she'd call him, like a, like a lamb, a little lambkins.
Examples
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Hold tight, my lambkin.
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( screaming ) Have I gotten through to you, lambkins?
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That was before his lambkin made it to the final round.
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Let us condole the knight, for, lambkins, we will live.
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"Yes, mother's little lambkin."
Fiction book (1991) -
This raised Catholic ire, and the lambkins did fire threats of great harm and to make dead.
Blog text (4) -
With what shameless pleasure do the chubby lambkins indulge the rough and tumble of their games, he thought.
Fiction book (1995) -
Eight hours conning the barge would be very hard work in unfamiliar waters, and hardest for mother's little lambkin, who had the overall responsibility for the flotilla.
Fiction book (1991) -
Or with theocritus, "it is spring everywhere, "and in the pastures the udders are swelling with milk "and the lambkins are suckling."
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The little lambkin followed its mother eagerly around the meadow.
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Morphology
Etymology
Lambkin comes from lamb plus the small-making ending -kin, which means 'little' or 'young'. So a lambkin is literally a 'little lamb', and people often use it as a sweet name for someone small or dear.