Sproutling

[f. SPROUT sb.¹ Cf. WFlem. spruiteling.] A little or young sprout. Also attrib. In quots. fig.

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1838. Blackw. Mag., XLIII. 314. When Thiers the sproutling rebel began his career of rebellion at the soirées of M. Lafitte.

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1876. T. S. Egan, trans. Heine’s Atta Troll, etc. 30.

	Child, my child, thou latest sproutling
	Of my loins, apply thy one ear
	To the snout of thy begetter,
	And suck in my earnest word!

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