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fiendling

noun

Etymology

From fiend + -ling.

  1. derived from *peh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *fijandz✻
  3. inherited from *fijand✻
  4. inherited from fēond — “enemy”
  5. inherited from fend
  6. suffixed as fiendling — “fiend + ling”

Definitions

  1. A miniature fiend

    A miniature fiend; fiendkin.

  2. A subordinate or underling spirit

    A subordinate or underling spirit; imp.

    • For should its faint pulsations cease Ere he had coated it with grease, His God would clutch it, and condemn The fiendling to eternal flame.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fiendling. 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