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rudeling

noun

Etymology

From rude + -ling (literally “little rude one”).

  1. derived from rudis — “rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”
  2. derived from rude
  3. inherited from rude
  4. suffixed as rudeling — “rude + ling”

Definitions

  1. One who is rude.

    • "Rather young and quite as troublesome as the fashionables of their kind; they dodged me like shadows, followed me like lapdogs of Charles's breed; and courted me like rudelings. [...]"
    • On the earth's broad back Basks the brood of the giants: — Riesenheim, that is their home — Fasolt and Fafner The rudeling princes, Envied the Niblung's power; The wondrous hoard, They won for themselves, And wrested with it the ring.
    • What cared the rudelings of Tammany Hall? They quaffed their cider, sang their songs, told lying stories of adventures by flood and field, and at last attracted the wary eye of Aaron Burr.

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