bantling

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English

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from band(s) (“swaddling clothes”) +‎ -ling, or a modification of German Bänkling (“bastard-child”), equivalent to bench +‎ -ling.

Noun

bantling (plural bantlings)

  1. (archaic, UK dialectal) An infant or young child.
    • 1809, Washington Irving (as Dietrich Knickerbocker), A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty‎:
      And I even question whether any tender virgin, who was accidentally and unaccountably enriched with a bantling, would save her character at parlour fire-sides and evening tea-parties, by ascribing the phenomenon to a swan, a shower of gold, or a river god.
    • 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer‎:
      "You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!..."
    • 1999, The Wedding Gamble‎, page 104:
      "As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered.
      "Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"
  2. (archaic) A bastard-child.
  3. (archaic, derogatory) A brat.

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