Is Oakling a Word?

No, oakling is not in the scrabble dictionary.

What does Oakling mean?

: a young or small oak tree.

Is the word awful slang?

By the early 1800s, we start to see some slang uses of “awful” to mean ugly, frightful, or monstrous – meanings that are much closer to what we have today. At some point, “awful” also becomes an intensifier: “I'm awfully sad.”