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Flatling vs Fatling - What's the difference?

flatling | fatling |

As an adverb flatling

is flatly, plainly.

As a noun fatling is

a young animal (especially a calf or lamb) which has been fattened for slaughter.

flatling

English

Alternative forms

* flatlings

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Flatly, plainly.
  • In a flat position.
  • With the flat side (e.g. of a weapon).
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
  • *:Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke, / In signe of true subjection to her powre […].
    • English manner adverbs

    fatling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young animal (especially a calf or lamb) which has been fattened for slaughter.
  • *1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:
  • *:Lo I have prepared my dynner, myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled, and all thinges are redy, come unto the mariage.
  • *1611 , Bible (King James Version), Isaiah 11:6:
  • *:The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.