airling

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English

Etymology

air +‎ -ling

Pronunciation

Noun

airling (plural airlings)

  1. (obsolete) A thoughtless, light-hearted person.
    Synonyms: airhead, luftmensch
  2. An imaginary sprite, usually a beautiful woman, conjured out of thin air by a poet's imagination.
    • 1903, Eleanor Hull, “Three Irish Jacobite Poets”, in The New Ireland Review, volume 19, numbers pages 40–58, page 51:

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “airling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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