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
Show me a perfectly happy man, and I will show you an ignorant witling, light-headed, hardhearted, and of a most powerfully good digestion!
From Ardath by Corelli, Marie
But the chopping-boss, his humorous gaze on the witling, remarked: “I reckon I’ll have to rule that song out, after this, ‘Hitchbiddy.’”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
Her age was the favorite theme of the callow witling, her cause a never-failing subject for reproach and abuse.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted
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
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