bantling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bastard-child.
Archaic
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!...""
- ""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?""
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from band(s) (“swaddling clothes”) + -ling, or a modification of German Bänkling (“bastard-child”), equivalent to bench + -ling.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
- Archaic
- Derogatory