lastling

English

Etymology

From last +‎ -ling.

Noun

lastling (plural lastlings)

1. One who is last.

   Antonym: firstling

   • 1909, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, page 357:

     He, however, who would be a firstling, let him take care lest he also become a lastling!

   • 1912, Dante Alighieri, The Convivio of Dante Alighieri, page 62:

     Then I pray thee to take heart again,
     And say to them, O my beloved lastling: 'Give heed
     at least how beautiful I am.'

   • 1922, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Apple-tree, page 93:

     The later worms, either the lastlings from the early brood or the product of subsequent broods, may remain in the apple when it is harvested, particularly in an apple picked before it is quite mature and from which the worm has not escaped.

2. One who is the last of their kind; endling.

See also

• endling