"luckling" meaning in All languages combined

See luckling on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: lucklings [plural]
Etymology: From luck + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|luck|ling}} luck + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} luckling (plural lucklings)
  1. One favoured by luck or fortune.

Inflected forms

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          "text": "And how excessive is the conceit likely to be of the few inordinately flattered lucklings of an hour, on a single day in July last, in Saratoga!",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth:",
          "text": "Our little lambkin, waxwing, luckling, all the cordial choir are Noah-calling you now: [...]",
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