Home › Words › S › starklingstarklingstarkling means any of the six children of Ned Stark in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, starkling ranks #40,949 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Stark + -ling.nounAny of the six children of Ned Stark in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.e.g.“This scenario does raise the interesting question of just what on earth the Starklings are going to make of each other when/if they meet up again.” — 2003 June 14, Dom Wynn, “Re: First time reader returns ... and is very disappointed in GRRM (spoilers!)”, in alt.fan-grrm (Usenet):Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).