meanling
nounEtymology
From mean + -ling.
- derived from *mey-✻
- derived from *meyno-✻
- derived from *meyn-✻
- inherited from *mainijaną✻
- inherited from *mainijan✻
- inherited from mǣnan
- inherited from menen
Definitions
One who is mean or common
One who is mean or common; a commoner.
- At them at once! and bring them to their senses. What ? recreants, cowards, meanlings, to refuse A fair return to whom you owe your shoes! Downcast, ashamed, they all before me creep, And do my bidding like a flock of sheep.
- I was not burned at the stake like a meanling. And I did not, as prelude to my death, say the cute things that are attributed to me.
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No curated loop yet for meanling. 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