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Writer seen with family pet
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lambkin
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lambkin is a dialect term for a young lamb . Lambkin may refer to: Lamkin , Child Ballad David Lambkin , an English novelist Lambkin (cat) a recent breed of short-legged, curly coated cat, a cross of the Munchkin and LaPerm breeds
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a very young lamb
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., as a surname, from lamb + diminutive suffix -kin .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A young lamb, a very young sheep. 2 A term of endearment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lambkin \Lamb"kin\, n. A small lamb.
Usage examples of lambkin.
It seemed to Myron a little strange that his two intimates in his boyhood town should not have been his own family, nor Herbert Lambkin, nor any of the lively ruffians with whom he had once loafed at the livery-stable, but two familiar strangers whom, as the baby Effie May and the aloof Ted Dingle, he had seen without knowing them.
Her father, Trumbull Lambkin, was not only the leading druggist in town, which made him almost the same as a doctor, but also a director in the Housatonic Savings Bank, a member of the library board, and a vestryman in the Episcopal Church, and the Lambkins had lived in Black Thread for three long, tradition-crusted generations.
I could not avoid thinking that I had fallen in with a greatly traduced people, and I moralized not a little upon the disadvantage of having a bad name, which in this instance had given a tribe of savages, who were as pacific as so many lambkins, the reputation of a confederacy of giant-killers.