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swanling

noun

  1. A young or baby swan; a cygnet.

    Suddenly I feel myself become small as a swanling, tucked into the swan's feathers.

Where it comes from

From swan + -ling, formed by analogy with duckling, gosling, etc. Compare German Schwänlein.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry swanling (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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