bantling

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An infant or young child. UK,archaic,dialectal
    — 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.
  2. A bastard-child. archaic
  3. A brat. archaic,derogatory

词形变化

bantlings plural

词汇关系

近义词
babe infant

词源

Uncertain. Perhaps from band(s) (“swaddling clothes”) + -ling, or a modification of German Bänkling (“bastard-child”), equivalent to bench + -ling.
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