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View synonyms for bantling
bantling
[ bant-ling ]
noun
- a very young child.
bantling
/ ˈbæntlɪŋ /
noun
- archaic.a young child; brat
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bantling1
C16: perhaps from German Bänkling illegitimate child, from Bank bench + -ling 1
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Example Sentences
A long time, however, must have elapsed before the bantling took heart of grace and found strength to run alone.
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He advertised my bantling gratuitously in his own journal, and gave it every possible facility.
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It is fortunate for you, sir, that the Duchess Joan wears her hair short, like a Northman or a bantling troubadour.
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He had got something from Don Jaime's books, this mountaineer's bantling!
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She had spent more than an hour the evening before writing a story, and was rather proud of her first-born literary bantling.
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