luckling

English

Etymology

From luck +‎ -ling.

Noun

luckling (plural lucklings)

1. One favoured by luck or fortune.
   • 1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher:

     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!

   • 2007, Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth:

     Our little lambkin, waxwing, luckling, all the cordial choir are Noah-calling you now: [...]