earthling
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| (esp in poetry or science fiction) an inhabitant of the earth; human being | |
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Earthling
is always a great word to know.
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
earthling
O.E. eyrþling "plowman" (see earth); the sense of "inhabitant of the earth" is from 1590s. Earthman was originally (1860) "a demon who lives in the earth;" science fiction sense of "inhabitant of the planet Earth" first attested 1949 in writing of Robert Heinlein.
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Example sentences
In conclusion, what's your point on methane emissions for reservoirs, scientific earthling.
Since they're from another planet, they are able to mistake him for a baseball player, which no real earthling would do.
Could not agree with you more, scientific earthling.
Some people will be repulsed, as was this earthling.
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