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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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Wit

-ling

; cf. G.

witzling

A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

A beau and

witing

perished in the forming.

Pope.

Ye newspaper

witlings

! ye pert scribbling folks!

Goldsmith.

Noun.

[dim. From with.] A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

A beau and witling perishd in the throng.

witling ‎(plural witlings)

a person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty
a person with little wit
- 1942: Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua by - "But the witlings of the bunch were those two swaggering there in the popular conception of western dress...."
- 1955: Rex Stout, Immune to Murder - "...only a witling would call a man with my conceit a liar."