fawnling

English

Etymology

From fawn +‎ -ling.

Noun

fawnling (plural fawnlings)

1. A small, young, or baby fawn.
   • 2012, John Payne Hafiz, The Collected Poems of Hafiz:

     Slay not that my musk-deer fawnling, Hunter! Prithee, have thou shame Of her night-black eye nor bind her With thy lasso long and strait.