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bantling

bantling noun: an infant or young child.

Noun

bantling (plural bantlings)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) An infant or young child.
    • 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.1809, Washington Irving (as Dietrich Knickerbocker), A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty
    • "You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!..."1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
  2. (archaic) A bastard-child.
  3. (archaic, derogatory) A brat.

bantling meaning in Tamil

bantling in Tamil

சிறுகுழவி, மதலை

Synonyms of bantling

Forms of bantling

pluralbantlings

Origin of bantling

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

Questions about bantling

What does bantling mean?
Bantling means an infant or young child.
What is bantling in Tamil?
Bantling in Tamil is சிறுகுழவி, மதலை. See Bantling meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bantling?
Bantling is a noun.
What is the plural of bantling?
The plural of bantling is bantlings.

Words near bantling in the dictionary

  1. Bantingism
  2. Bantingize
  3. Bantingized
  4. Bantingizes
  5. Bantingizing
  6. bantling
  7. bantlings
  8. Bantog
  9. Bantoid
  10. Bantolinao
  11. Bantologist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bantling (page history and authors); bantling (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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