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語源

From reck +‎ -ling.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɹɛklɪŋ/

名詞

reckling (plural recklings)

1. (archaic) A weak child or animal.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 130:

     O ay, what say ye to Sir Valence, him / Whose kinsman left him watcher o'er his wife / And two fair babes, and went to distant lands; / Was one year gone, and on returning found / Not two but three: there lay the reckling, one / But one hour old! What said the happy sire?

2. (archaic) A reckless person.

アナグラム

• clerking

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