A delightfully uncharitable slang term for a child — specifically the kind of term deployed by someone who finds children loud, inconvenient, or generally in the way. It combines anatomical bluntness with a diminutive suffix to create something that manages to be funny and rude simultaneously. Online communities devoted to the child-free lifestyle adopted it enthusiastically. It's not genuinely hateful but it does signal a decided lack of sentimentality about small humans.
The restaurant was meant to be adults-only, but somehow a table of crotchlings had still managed to invade.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang, derogatory) A child.
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