(diminutive, affectionate) A daughter, especially a young or precious one.
2003, William Patten, Poems Old and New:BLOSSOM of the almond-trees, • April's gift to April's bees, Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling; — ...
2004, Flora Annie Webster Steel, Dramatic History of India:Would I have my vanished sight once more I Tell me, daughterling, how looks this promised land towards which we have been journeying these months and years?
