-ling

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·- An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.

II. -ling ·- A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.

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