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
Love to L., the Captain, and the Violet, and give your bantling a kiss extraordinary for Grandpapa.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
There is no reason that such a bantling should be born at all, and at least we would recommend the continuance of gestation for nine times the Horatian period.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
The Landau, so fast disappearing from our streets and roads, was but a puny bantling of a vehicle in comparison with the older and more august conveyance.
From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham
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.
From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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