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
It seems Mr. Young sent the manuscript to London, where the title was changed, and the bantling cut up, altered, and considerably improved.
From She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa by Montrose Jonas Moses
The Seraph, mightily confused at being called a bantling, giggled inanely, so I replied again.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley
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
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