What is "littlun"

Usage examples of "littlun".

Ralph looked away first, pretending interest in a group of littluns on the sand.

The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit.

The littlun Percival had early crawled into a shelter and stayed there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused.

The undoubted littluns, those aged about six, led a quite distinct, and at the same time intense, life of their own.

The littluns played here, if not happily at least with absorbed attention.

He was searching his mind for simple words so that even the littluns would understand what the assembly was about.

Now they talk--not only the littluns, but my hunters sometimes--talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal.

And if them littluns climb back on the twister again they'll only fall off in a sec.

There's enough silly talk about beasts, without the littluns seeing you gliding about like a--"

There had been no further numberings of the littluns, partly because there was no means of insuring that all of them were accounted for and partly because Ralph knew the answer to at least one question Piggy had asked on the mountaintop.

Those littluns who had climbed back on the twister fell off again and did not mind.

They were chanting something and littluns that had had enough were staggering away, howling.

Sometimes a littlun cried out from the other shelters and once a bigun spoke in the dark.

As though he were serenading the rising sun, Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir and the hunters crept to the platform and the littluns whimpered as now they so frequently did.

Then the twins realized they would have a fire near them as a comfort in the night and this set a few littluns dancing and clapping hands.