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Bearling vs Beardling - What's the difference?

bearling | beardling |

As nouns the difference between bearling and beardling

is that bearling is a small, young, or juvenile bear; bear cub while beardling is one who wears a beard.

bearling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (diminutive) A small, young, or juvenile bear; bear cub.
  • * 1871 , Charles Dickens, All the year round :
    • While waiting at the inn up drove a Pau acquaintance in the person of the Marquis de Che- rizet, 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, [...]

    beardling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) One who wears a beard.
  • * 1568 , Desiderius Erasmus, trans by Nicholas Leigh, Of the yong man and the euill disposed woman , page 1:
    • bicause at your departing you had no berd at al, now you become a handsome beardling .