Nestling

Quick meaning: Nestling is a noun meaning A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.

Meaning

A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of nestle
2. The act of one who nestles.
3. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.

Example Sentences

[…] the Secrecies of the Paſſages; and the ſeats or neaſtling of the humours; […]

It was associated, to them, with vague sweet memories of loving nestlings in mother's arms, of soft warm coddlings before the fire, of slow rocking to and fro in the little, low, flag chair, and gradual droppings off to sleep […]

I certainly was not prepared for the cosy nestling valleys that snuggled against the shoulders of the hills; a land where the graystone cottages and farmsteads still prevailed, but where they had taken on something of the softness of their kind in Gloucester and the Cotswolds, and seemed almost like growths of the soil; […].

Word Forms

• nestlings

Synonyms for nestling

Depending on context, synonyms include quab, tyke, minor, child, fry, tike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tike, tyke, kid, fry, shaver, nipper.

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