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 are some persons who are of too fastidious a turn of mind to like anything long, or to assent twice to the same opinion. —— always sets himself to prop the falling cause, to nurse the rickety bantling.
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The intelligently pious Tillotson wishes Mother Church well rid of the bantling; and poor George the Third himself, with all his immense genius for orthodoxy, could not take kindly to it.
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The Catholic clergy grew suspicious of the reformers who extolled the conduct of France, because the new r�gime had produced Free Thought, or rather had endowed the bantling with strength which the great Voltaire had nourished.
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You see it will not fit anything else except another lie that you make, and you have to start a factory in a short time to make lies enough to support that poor little bantling that you left on the door-step of your honesty.
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Did Dorsey at Saint Louis treat it as his bantling? or did he say to Miner, "This is all I will do"?
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