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
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
It was a tone of authority that the witling recognized, and it commanded his weak will and giant strength.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
"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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