witling
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of witling
Example Sentences
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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 Holman Day
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 Marie Corelli
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 Ida Husted Harper
The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb: Sir Strut, for so the witling throng Oft called him when at school, And hitch'd him up in many a song To sport and ridicule.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
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