"whelpling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From whelp + -ling.",
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      "form": "whelplings",
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          "ref": "1907, Frederic William Farrar, Lives of the Fathers",
          "text": "[…] For that whelpling Diogenes sought to find a man, carrying round his lamp at midday; but Marcion, having quenched the light of faith, has lost the God whom he had found.",
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          "ref": "2011, Ani Johnson, Half-Breed",
          "text": "\"Yes, I did,\" Evia replied, and then licked the top of the whelpling's head.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence",
          "text": "[…] to share space with his dog, whom the attendant explained he'd rescued from the road and taken in, likely, according to the corny script I'd begun playing in, so I'd understand I was truly a stray, a whelpling, a pup.",
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        "A little whelp."
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  "word": "whelpling"
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  "etymology_text": "From whelp + -ling.",
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          "ref": "1907, Frederic William Farrar, Lives of the Fathers",
          "text": "[…] For that whelpling Diogenes sought to find a man, carrying round his lamp at midday; but Marcion, having quenched the light of faith, has lost the God whom he had found.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2011, Ani Johnson, Half-Breed",
          "text": "\"Yes, I did,\" Evia replied, and then licked the top of the whelpling's head.",
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          "ref": "2011, Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence",
          "text": "[…] to share space with his dog, whom the attendant explained he'd rescued from the road and taken in, likely, according to the corny script I'd begun playing in, so I'd understand I was truly a stray, a whelpling, a pup.",
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        "A little whelp."
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