deviling

A small or young devil.

Noun

  1. A small or young devil.
    • go leap her, and engender young devilings - 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Knight of Malta”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for...

Origin

From devil + -ling.

Forms

devilings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of devil

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.