bantling
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bantling
First recorded in 1585–95, bantling is from the German word Bänkling illegitimate child. See bench, -ling 1
Example Sentences
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There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a pucker between Dorothy's dark eyebrows as she snatched back her literary bantling.
From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Brazil, Angela
Sir Flapwing was of high degree, As fine a bantling as you'd see 'Twixt Amsterdam and Paris, he.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
To that place I was directed, where liv'd the maid that put the bantling out to be nurs'd by my wife for her lady; and who she was, 'tis none of our business to enquire.
From Three Hours after Marriage by Arbuthnot, John
The Seraph, mightily confused at being called a bantling, giggled inanely, so I replied again.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Morley, Christopher
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