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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From owl + -let. Compare howlet.
Noun[edit]
owlet (pluralowlets)
Diminutive of owl
1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 51-54,[1]
And in faith Sir unlesse your hospitalitie doe releeve us, wee are like to wander with a sorrowfull hey ho, among the owlets, & Hobgoblins of the Forrest […]
c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1,[2]
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, London: J. Johnson, pp. 4-5,[3]
[…] and bold with joy,
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place
(Portentous sight) the owlet, ATHEISM,
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,
Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close,
And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven,
Cries out, “where is it?”
A young owl; owling.
One of a species of small owls, such as Athene noctua.
An owlet moth.
Synonyms[edit]
owling, howlet, houlet
Derived terms[edit]
owlet moth (Noctuidae)
long-whiskered owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi)
Translations[edit]
Dutch: uilskuiken(nl)n
French: jeune hiboum, (with tufted ears)jeune chouettef
Georgian: ბუს ბახალა(bus baxala)
German: Eulenjungesn, junge Eulef
Russian: совёнок(ru)m(sovjónok)
Slovak: sôvän
Swedish: uggleunge(sv)c
Volapük: (♂♀)lülül, (♂)hilülül, (♀)jilülül
References[edit]
owlet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams[edit]
Towle, towel
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