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

But the chopping-boss, his humorous gaze on the witling, remarked: “I reckon I’ll have to rule that song out, after this, ‘Hitchbiddy.’”

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

While through the press enraged Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A beau and witling perish'd in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George

While through the press enraged Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander

Her age was the favorite theme of the callow witling, her cause a never-failing subject for reproach and abuse.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted