Home › Words › F › fatherlingfatherlingfatherling · noun — A father.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom father + -ling.nounA father.A father's child.e.g.“Because P (parent) and Ch (child) elide gender distinctions, Gould substitutes two pairs of terms: F (father) and F (fatherling, or man's child); [...]” — 2012, Thomas R. Trautmann, Peter M. Whiteley, Crow-Omaha:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).