pindling

¹ American  

[pind-ling] / ˈpɪnd lɪŋ /

adjective

Older Use.

1. puny; sickly; frail; weak.

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Pindling ² American  

[pind-ling] / ˈpɪnd lɪŋ /

noun

1. Lynden Oscar Father of the Bahamas, 1930–2000, Bahamian political leader: first prime minister 1967–92.

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pindling British  

/ ˈpɪndlɪŋ /

adjective

1. peevish or fractious

2. sickly or puny

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Etymology

Origin of pindling

1860–65, pine ² + -ling ¹, on the model of dwindling

Example Sentences

“You’re mighty pindling to be carrying it. Watch you don’t spill it.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

He was only a pindling critter when he pipped the shell, an’ the vi-cis-si-tudes that bird’s been through since he fust scratched would ha’ made a human lay right down and die.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks

There is a child, though, Jane they call her, a pindling little thing.

From Up the Hill and Over by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

The babe is pindling scandlous, and its paw is wore to a frazzle tending it of nights, and cooking, and troubling in his mind.

From Mothering on Perilous by Furman, Lucy S.

He was a wide-mouthed, sallow and pindling little boy, whose pipe-stemmed legs looked all the thinner for being contrasted with his feet, which were long and narrow.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna