Middle English

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Noun

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dereling

  1. darling
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3792-3793:
      ‘Why, nay,’ quod he, ‘god woot, my swete leef,
      I am thyn Absolon, my dereling!’
      "Why, nay," said he, "God knows, my sweet beloved,
      I am thy Absolon, my darling!

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Etymology

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From Middle English derelyng, from Old English dīerling, corresponding to dear +‎ -ling.

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dereling

  1. darling

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 34