noun
flightling
Flightling (noun) means someone who has fled or run away, such as a fugitive or refugee.
noun
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Someone who has fled or run away, such as a fugitive or refugee.
"Refugees, flightlings, black things, whose dissident passage through understanding is often taken for a kind of lawless freedom."
— Fred Moten, Stolen Life (2018)
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Etymology
Formed from flight (“fleeing”) and the suffix -ling. It's cognate with West Frisian flechtling (“refugee”), Dutch vluchteling (“refugee”), German Low German Flüchtling (“refugee”) and German Flüchtling (“refugee”), and compares with Danish flygtning (“refugee”), Swedish flykting (“refugee”) and Norwegian flyktning (“refugee”).
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What is the meaning of flightling?
"flightling" (noun) means someone who has fled or run away, such as a fugitive or refugee.
