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Webster 1913 Edition
Bantling
Bant′ling
,Noun.
[Prob. for ]
bandling
, from band
, and meaning a child wrapped in swaddling bands; or cf. G. bäntling
a bastard, fr. bank
bench. Cf. Bastard
, Noun.
A young or small child; an infant.
[Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
In what out of the way corners genius produces her
bantlings
. W. Irving.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bantling
BANT'LING
,Noun.
Definition 2025
bantling
bantling
English
Noun
bantling (plural bantlings)
- (Britain dialectal) An infant or young child.
- 1809, Washington Irving (as Dietrich Knickerbocker), A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty
- 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.
- 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
- "You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!..."
- 1809, Washington Irving (as Dietrich Knickerbocker), A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty