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bantlings

bantlings is the plural of bantling.

Meaning of bantling

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
  2. (archaic) A bastard-child.
  3. (archaic, derogatory) A brat.

Questions about bantlings

What is bantlings the plural of?
Bantlings is the plural of bantling.

Words near bantlings in the dictionary

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

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