hatchling

English

Etymology

From hatch +‎ -ling. Sense 2 in reference to the term crack one's egg (“realize one is transgender”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæt͡ʃlɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: hatch‧ling
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Noun

hatchling (plural hatchlings)

1. A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.

   The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 90:

     Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths.

3. (transgender slang) A person who has (especially recently) realized that they are transgender.

Derived terms

• posthatchling

Translations

a newly hatched animal

• Albanian: çuç (sq) m
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Literary Chinese: 鷇 (kòu)

• Dutch: kuiken (nl) n (bird), jong (nl) n (reptile or other animal)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vastakuoriutunut
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• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schlüpfling (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: νεοσσός m (neossós) (bird)

• Hungarian: fióka (hu)
• Italian: pulcino (it)
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• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: pūhouhou (insect)
• Ojibwe: (bird) banajaanh
• Polish: pisklę (pl) n (of birds)
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• Swedish: unge (sv) c
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• Zazaki: leyr (diq) (bird), tut (man), pıt f (woman)

See also

• fledgling
• nestling