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English
Etymology
From rude + -ling (literally “little rude one”).
Noun
rudeling (plural rudelings)
- (derogatory) One who is rude.
1833, The Olio, or, Museum of entertainment, volume 11, page 242:"Rather young and quite as troublesome as the fashionables of their kind; they dodged me like shadows, followed me like lapdogs of Charles's breed; and courted me like rudelings. [...]"
1877, Richard Wagner, Siegfried:On the earth's broad back Basks the brood of the giants: — Riesenheim, that is their home — Fasolt and Fafner The rudeling princes, Envied the Niblung's power; The wondrous hoard, They won for themselves, And wrested with it the ring.
1906, Times magazine, volume 1, numbers 1-4, page 107:What cared the rudelings of Tammany Hall? They quaffed their cider, sang their songs, told lying stories of adventures by flood and field, and at last attracted the wary eye of Aaron Burr.
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