swallowling

English

Etymology

swallow +‎ -ling

Noun

swallowling (plural swallowlings)

1. A young swallow.
   • 1923, Harold John Massingham, Untrodden Ways, page 85:

     Then back to the slender bough, which drooped under the weight of four swallowlings in a row, and now swayed with the agitations of their welcome to hovered wings and a full beak.

   • 1989, Stephen Owen, Yuwen (Suo'an), Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire (page 92)

     And swallows are the spring's agents, nesting in the rafters, eating, defecating, procreating, producing prodigious flocks of swallowlings.