English edit

Etymology edit

home +‎ -ling

Noun edit

homeling (plural homelings)

  1. (obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
    • 1857, Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries:
      [] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.

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