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
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 David Grayson
My bantling was thus born upon the high seas, in the South Atlantic Ocean, and no power could gainsay the legitimacy of its birth.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
Do you recall those bygone days, When you received with kindly praise My bantling book of Rhyme?
From Perverted Proverbs A Manual of Immorals for the Many by Harry Graham
And finally, we would remind the rejected one that, after all, his bantling has been exhibited in the R.A.—to the president and his colleagues engaged in the work of selection.
From Mr. Punch in Bohemia by Various
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