"luckling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From luck + -ling.",
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          "ref": "1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher",
          "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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          "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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        "One favoured by luck or fortune."
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          "fortune",
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  "word": "luckling"
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  "etymology_text": "From luck + -ling.",
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