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
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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
There was a pucker between Dorothy's dark eyebrows as she snatched back her literary bantling.
From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Angela Brazil
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 G. W. (George William) Foote
Did Dorsey at Saint Louis treat it as his bantling? or did he say to Miner, "This is all I will do"?
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
For the third time that month, Carl saw Ray turn his collar round and become clerical, while every one rustled with delight, including the jolly bantling clergyman.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
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