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
Nurse C. would, oh! so gladly, "Nicodemus The bantling into Nothing."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 by Various
Bullock had contracted for, and superintended the building of the Alabama, and was now going with me, to be present at the christening of his bantling.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
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
In short, they have “cast the bantling on the rocks.”
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David
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