gnatling

English

Etymology

gnat +‎ -ling

Noun

gnatling (plural gnatlings)

(poetic) A tiny gnat.
- 2012, Jason Hurlburt, Herstory:
  the world's tiniest bat, which was smaller than a gnatling […]
- 1782, James Elphinston, The Epigrams of M. Val. Martial:
  A gnatling's wind gives all its frame to ſigh
- 1761, Charles Churchill, The Rosciad:
  […] attack these gnatlings in their neſt

References

“gnatling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

tangling

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