gnatling
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editgnatling (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
edit- “gnatling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.