[f. WOLF sb. + -LING1.] A young or little wolf. Also fig.
13[?]. K. Alis., 6256 (Laud MS.). Wulflynges he bischette also, Merueillous men ben þoo.
1570. Foxe, Serm. Christ Crucif., 8. If a mighty hunter … happenyng vppon the Wolfes denne, findeth there the young Wolfelynges.
1746. W. Horsley, Fool (1748), I. 94. Wolflings the Lambs embrace.
1759. J. Downes, in Tyerman, John Wesley (1870), II. 342. Two bold, though beardless divines, so young, that they might rather be called wolflings than wolves.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. V. iii. Young children were thrown in [the river], their mothers vainly pleading: ‘Wolflings,’ answered the Company of Marat, ‘who would grow to be wolves.’
1895. Kipling, 2nd Jungle Bk., 204. Thou art a man, Little Brother, wolfling of my watching.
