Houndling vs Foundling - What's the difference?
houndling | foundling |
A small or young hound.
*1840 , The Gentleman's magazine - Volume 169 - Page 406:
An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.
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* 1794 , (Thomas Paine), (Part I) ,
As nouns the difference between houndling and foundling
is that houndling is a small or young hound while foundling is an abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.houndling
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(en noun)- Kidlings thus, and the goats I beheld, and the hound and the houndling , Alike in the make: wonder were not the greater and small I compar'd, Vainly, for Rome, magnificent Rome!
foundling
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Noun
- In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.
- Moses was a foundling ; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver.