"skyling" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: skylings [plural]
Etymology: From sky + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sky|ling}} sky + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} skyling (plural skylings)
  1. A being from the sky or heavens. Hyponyms: skymaiden
    Sense id: en-skyling-en-noun-m2gakdIO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ling

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1962, Clifton Reginald Walker, Destination: Amaltheia - Page 60",
          "text": "For the first time I realised with amazing clearness that the sky was no blue expanse overhead but an abyss . . . and that we live in that sky stuck to a speck, the earth, and ought really to be called skylings, not earthlings. Miserable skylings!",
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