Word.ws English Dictionary

warling

warling noun: one often quarreled with.

Noun

warling (plural warlings)

  1. (obsolete) One often quarreled with.
    • [I]t is better to be / An old mans derling than a yong mans werling.1546, John Heywood, chapter VII, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood. […], London: George Bell and Sons, […], published 1874, →OCLC, part II, page 138

Forms of warling

pluralwarlings

Origin of warling

From war + -ling.

Questions about warling

What does warling mean?
Warling means one often quarreled with.
What part of speech is warling?
Warling is a noun.
What is the plural of warling?
The plural of warling is warlings.

Words near warling in the dictionary

  1. warlight
  2. warlike
  3. warlikely
  4. warlikeness
  5. Warlimpirrnga
  6. warling
  7. Warlingham
  8. warlings
  9. Warlis
  10. warload
  11. warloads

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: warling (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “warling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/warling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.