lambkin

1. 1.

   a very young lamb

   Broaderlamb

Other forms of lambkin

plural

lambkins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lambkin

What does lambkin mean?

lambkin means "a very young lamb".

How many syllables are in lambkin?

lambkin has 2 syllables: lamb-kin. The stress falls on "lamb".

Is lambkin a common word?

lambkin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.