Word of the Day: DAUGHTERLING


ETYMOLOGY
from daughter + -ling


EXAMPLE
“…“Mrs. Bretton,” said he: “what am I to do with this daughter or daughterling of mine? She neither grows in wisdom nor in stature. Don’t you find her pretty nearly as much the child as she was ten years ago?”…”

From: The Little Countess – Villette
By Charlotte Brontë, 1853

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