bearling

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bearling

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From Middle English berling, equivalent to bear + -ling.

noun bearlings

  1. diminutive A small, young, or juvenile bear. While waiting at the inn up drove a Pau acquaintance in the person of the Marquis de Cherizet, out of whose pony-carriage was lifted a square box, which proved to contain a poor little bearling of about a month old, whose mother had been shot, and itself captured, […]

    Similar: bear cub, bearlet, bear-whelp

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@misc{bearling_2026,
  title = {bearling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bearling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}