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English
Etymology
From flipper + -ling.
Pronunciation
Noun
flipperling (plural flipperlings)
- (rare, literary) A young seal.
- 1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review.
Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
1921, The Literary Digest, volume 71, page 20:There the flipperlings—young seals—are born, and from there, as the ice begins to break up with the spring, they and their parents come floating southwards on huge blocks of ice.
1936, Latrobe Carroll, The Canadian Magazine:At last an unwary cod, in flight from the big male, sped close beside the flipperling.