witling

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One Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee�Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen.

From Time Magazine Archive

A beau and witling perished in the throng,     One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

When active Pickle Smithfield stage ascends, 200 The three days' wonder of his laughing friends, Each, or as judgment or as fancy guides, The lively witling praises or derides.

From Poetical Works by Churchill, Charles

The point of the witling joke against La Salle was a new version of the old adage: Go farther and fare worse.

From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Wood, William Charles Henry

Alas, poor witling, and can't you see That for mighty thoughts and heroic aims, the words themselves      must appropriate be?

From The Frogs by Aristophanes