nestling

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.
  2. The act of one who nestles.
    — It was associated, to them, with vague sweet memories of loving nestlings in mother's arms, of soft warm coddlings before the fire, of slow rocking to and fro in the little, low, flag chair, and gradual droppings off to sleep […]
  3. A nest; a receptacle. obsolete
    — […] the Secrecies of the Paſſages; and the ſeats or neaſtling of the humours; […]
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of nestle form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — I certainly was not prepared for the cosy nestling valleys that snuggled against the shoulders of the hills; a land where the graystone cottages and farmsteads still prevailed, but where they had taken on something of the softness of their kind in Gloucester and the Cotswolds, and seemed almost like growths of the soil; […].

词形变化

nestlings plural nestlings plural

词汇关系

相关词
fledgling hatchling

词源

词源 1
From Middle English nestling, equivalent to nest + -ling.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English nestle
English -ing
English nestling
From nestle + -ing.
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