different between meanling vs yeanling

English

Etymology

From mean +? -ling.

Noun

meanling (plural meanlings)

1. One who is mean or common; a commoner.
   • 1876, Joseph Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, Costanza, and other poems:

     At them at once! and bring them to their senses. What ? recreants, cowards, meanlings, to refuse A fair return to whom you owe your shoes! Downcast, ashamed, they all before me creep, And do my bidding like a flock of sheep.

   • 1982, Isaac Asimov, Alice Laurance, Speculations:

     I was not burned at the stake like a meanling. And I did not, as prelude to my death, say the cute things that are attributed to me.

Anagrams

• mangelin, nameling

English

Alternative forms

• eanling

Etymology

From yean +? -ling.

Noun

yeanling (plural yeanlings)

1. The newly born offspring of a goat or sheep.
   • 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, Eumenides, page 183, lines 903–904

     But in due season here may flocks of worth

     Twin yeanlings bear;

Translations

Anagrams

• Lingayen, enlaying