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Middle English
Noun
dereling
- alternative form of darling
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3792-3793:
‘Why, nay,’ quod he, ‘god woot, my swete leef,
I am thyn Absolon, my dereling!’- "Why, nay," said he, "God knows, my sweet beloved,
I am thy Absolon, my darling!
References
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Etymology
From Middle English derelyng, from Old English dīerling, corresponding to dear + -ling.
Pronunciation
Noun
dereling
- darling
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 34