WORDLINGS

GAMES Magazine

February/March, 1990

Lori Zlatkin

The suffix" -LING means "small," "young," or "insignificant," as in words like "duckling," "seedling," and "weakling." With this in mind, we've come up with new meanings for a number of words ending in LING. For example, a minor Hollywood actor would be a STARLING. Can you guess the right word for each new definition below?

1. A short farm worker

2. A devalued dollar

3. A cut-rate doctor's bill

4. A mongrel pup

5. Petite clothes

6. A small knotted ribbon

7. An arrest for a small infraction

8. A ultra-tiny blood-sucking insect

9. A small amount of iron corrosion

Answers:

 

1. Handling

2. Buckling

3. Feeling

4. Curling

5. Garbling

6. Rustling

7. Bowling

8. Bustling

9. Tickling