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faintling

adj

Etymology

From faint + -ling.

  1. derived from *dʰeyǵʰ-✻
  2. derived from fingo
  3. derived from faint
  4. inherited from faynt
  5. suffixed as faintling — “faint + ling”

Definitions

  1. Timorous

    Timorous; feeble-minded.

  2. One who is faint, feeble, or weak.

    • And for a weak and peevish youth, a faintling, A boy of a girl's temper; one who shrinks Trembling and crouching at a look, a word, A lifted ringer, like a beaten hound.
    • Strong, strong, ever on, Strong in our hope increasing; Heed not the faintling's fall, Nor eyes that on ye look coldly.

The neighborhood

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