witling

Example Sentences

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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

It was a tone of authority that the witling recognized, and it commanded his weak will and giant strength.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

It could not, with the witling in the play, cap verses with any man.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

He had no superstitions, but the unaccountable flight of the witling, and the eerie tales offered in explanation and the mystic night of storm in that wild forest waste unstrung him.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb:  Sir Strut, for so the witling throng  Oft called him when at school,  And hitch'd him up in many a song  To sport and ridicule.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James