lifeling

lifeling (plural lifelings)

1. (rare) Little life
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Orsino: My gentleman Cesario?
     Sir Andrew: 'Od's lifelings, here he is!

• “lifeling”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lifeling”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• liefling