lambkin

From lamb +‎ -kin.

lambkin (plural lambkins)

A young lamb, a very young sheep.
- 1781, Richard Hole, Homer's Hymn to Ceres, Exeter: B. Thorn & Son, p. 38:
  A lambkin’s snowy fleece
- 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:
  There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.
A term of endearment.
- 1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B2, verso:
  Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins vve vvill liue.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, page 28:
  She has no real cognisance, dear lambkin, of anything at all.

young lamb

Belarusian: ягня́ n (jahnjá), ягнё n (jahnjó), бара́нчык m (baránčyk) (male)
Bulgarian: а́гънце n (ágǎnce), а́гне (bg) n (ágne)
Czech: jehňátko (cs) n, beránek (cs) m (male)
Dutch: lammetje (nl) n
Faroese: smálamb n
French: agnelet (fr) m
German: Lämmchen (de) n
Hungarian: bárányka (hu)
Irish: uainín m
Italian: agnellino (it) m
Latin: agnellus (la) m
Macedonian: јагне n (jagne)
Polish: jagniątko (pl) n, baranek (pl) m (male)
Russian: ягнёнок (ru) m (jagnjónok), бара́шек (ru) m (barášek) (male)
Slovak: jahňa n, baránok m (male)
Spanish: corderito (es) m, corderillo m
Ukrainian: ягня́ (uk) n (jahnjá), ягня́тко (uk) n (jahnjátko), бара́нчик (uk) m (baránčyk) (male)
Welsh: oenig f, oenyn m, oenan m or f

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