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形容詞

freshling (not comparable)

1. (poetic) freshly grown
   • 1832-1837, John Clare, “O quiet living solitude”, in Poems of the Middle Period^[1], ISBN 0198123868, page 52:

     There comes the gentle steps of spring / So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing / Fanning the freshling hedges there

   • 1907, Vernon Wade Wagar, Pocket Tokens, and Other Poems^[2], page 20:

     He blundered through the lighted stretch of fresh strewn hours, / Nor looked to profit at glad life in freshling flowers

名詞

freshling (複数形 freshlings)

1. An inexperienced person; a neophyte.
   • 1922, Thomas Hardy, “A House with a History”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier^[3]:

     Mere freshlings are they, blank of brow, / Who read not how / Its prime had passed before / Their raw equipments, scenes, and says / Afflicted its memoried face, / That had seen every larger phase / Of human ways / Before these filled the place.

関連する語

• freshle
• freshman
• youngling