monsterling

English

Etymology

From monster +‎ -ling.

Noun

monsterling (plural monsterlings)

1. A small or young monster.
   • 1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji:

     "They will know something is wrong, for the brute would not willingly have left her side. Odd that it did not fight you." The blunt-nose, slope-browed face of the monsterling was inscrutable, scarlet eyes inhuman and feral in the glow of the fire.

   • 2006, Martin H. Greenberg, Brittiany A. Koren, Fantasy Gone Wrong:

     “My apologies, good monsterling. It was an accident.”