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bantling

noun

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from band(s) (“swaddling clothes”) + -ling, or a modification of German Bänkling (“bastard-child”), equivalent to bench + -ling.

  1. derived from Bänkling

Definitions

  1. An infant or young child.

    • "You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!..."
    • "As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered. "Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"

  2. A bastard-child.

  3. A brat.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bantling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA