Lambkin

Definition: Lambkin

Lambkin

Noun

1. A very young lamb.

Date "lambkin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Lambkin

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Animal	Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.
Infant	Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Lambkin

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Little Lambkin (1940)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lambkin

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Devine, P., Doyle, C., and Lambkin, G. (1997). Combined determination of Coxiella burnetii-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgA improves specificity in the diagnosis of acute Q fever. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Lambkin

"Lambkin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Lambkin" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	83.33%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lambkin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lambkin	13
grip lambkin	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lambkin

Language		Translations for "lambkin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qingj (lamb). (various references)

Bulgarian		агънце (yeanling). (various references)

Czech		jehòátko. (various references)

German		Lämmchen. (various references)

Hungarian		jerkebárány (ewe lamb). (various references)

Italian		agnellino (yeanling). (various references)

Manx		eayneen (baa-lamb, yearling), eayn aeg. (various references)

Pig Latin		ambkinlay.(various references)

Portuguese		suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lamblike, lenient, meekness, mellifluous, mellow, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender). (various references)

Romanian		mieluşel (yeanling). (various references)

Russian		ягненочек. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		jagnjence, jagnješce (yeanling). (various references)

Spanish		como borrego. (various references)

Swedish		litet lamm, lammunge. (various references)

Thai		บุคคลที่มีอายุน้อยและไร้เ�"ียงสา, ลูกแกะเล็ก ๆ. (various references)

Turkish		kuzucuk (baa lamb, little lamb). (various references)

Ukranian		ягнятко. (various references)

Vietnamese		cừu non (hogget), cừu con (lamb, yeanling). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lambkin

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	agnellus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lambkin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lambkin": lambkins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lambkin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: labin, Lambin, lamkin, lampkin, Lembeke. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lambkin"

Words rhyming with "lambkin" (pronounced 'Lamb"kin'): Brodekin, Bumkin, Bumpkin, Buskin, Catkin, Cuskin, Dodkin, Doitkin, Elfkin, Firkin, Gherkin, Girkin, Grimalkin, Griskin, Ladkin, Likin, limpkin, Lordkin, Malkin, Mawkin, merkin, Miskin, Morkin, mousekin, Muchkin, Napkin, Perkin, Pipkin, Princekin, Pumpkin, Punkin, Romekin, Rumkin, siskin, Tamkin, Thumbkin, Welkin, Wolfkin, Yakin. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Lambkin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-k-l-m-n"
	-1 letter: malkin.
	-2 letters: binal, blain, blank, blink, kibla, liman, limba.
	-3 letters: akin, amin, anil, bail, balk, balm, bani, bank, bilk, bima, blam, blin, iamb, ilka, kail, kain, kami, kiln, kina, lain, lamb, lank, lima, limb, limn, link, mail, main, milk, mina, mink, nail.
	-4 letters: ail, aim, ain, alb, ami, ani, bal, bam, ban, bin, ilk, ink, kab, kin, lab, lam, lib, lin, man, mib, mil, nab, nam, nib, nil, nim.
	-5 letters: ab, ai, al, am, an, ba, bi, in, ka, la, li, ma, mi, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-k-l-m-n"
	+1 letter: lambkins, lambskin.
	+2 letters: lambskins, multibank.
	+5 letters: antiblackism, blackmailing, unmistakable, unmistakably.
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