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- (rare) One who is considered bad (for example, due to being effeminate).
2011, R. T. Raichev, Murder at the Villa Byzantine:The presence of the badling – poor little Clemmie – was causing particular tension.
2001, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Insulting English:"After the storm, all the women and children bailed desperately to keep the lifeboat from sinking. Not Lucas the badling, though. He just hopped up and down in the stern, flapping his arms in the air and exclaiming, 'Oh my, oh, my!'"
- Perhaps from Middle English *badling, from Old English bædling (“an effeminate person”), or simply bad + -ling.
- Dee also: loser; see also Thesaurus:worthless person, Thesaurus:effeminate man; baddie.