witling
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of witling
Example Sentences
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One Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee�Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen.
From Time Magazine Archive
While through the press enraged Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
If we reckon from the amœba, the witling seems scarcely distinguishable from the wit; but if we reckon from the average of humanity, they start asunder like the poles.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin
Its title was "The End of the Comedy"; and a wretched witling pretended that the piece was ill-named, since the pit refused to see the end of the comedy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
"Away with scythe and sickle," shouted the witling; "it's many a day since the fields of Wish-Ton-Wish have been trodden down by horsemen in buff jerkins, or ambushed by creeping Wampanoags."
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore
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