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Definition: BANTLING |
BANTLINGNoun1. A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.] |
Date "BANTLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Bantling A child. Mahn suggests the German, bnkling, a bastard. (Query, bandling, a little one in swaddling-clothes.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BANTLING. A young child. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infant | Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. |
Posterity | Child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bantling | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BANTLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | طفل صغير (infant, pickaninny, toddler), إبن زنا (bastard, love child, misbegotten, mongrel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хлапе (cub, kid, kiddy, nipper, whelp). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rajkó. (various references) | |
Manx | paitchey (bairn, brat, child, chit, kid, page, varlet), bantan (child, child archaic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antlingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pirralho (scamp), fedelho (brat, chit, mop up, snipe). (various references) | |
Romanian | puşti (brat, chit, kid, nipper), copil (babe, baby, bairn, boy, brat, child, chip, descendant, imp, infant, kid, offspring, papoose, peter pan, son, urchin). (various references) | |
Russian | отродье (brat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dete (baby, bairn, child, kid). (various references) | |
Swedish | barn (baby, bairn, barn, child, children, descendant, infant, issue, kid, offspring, son, successor node). (various references) | |
Turkish | yumurcak (brat, chit), ufaklık (fractional currency, kid, kiddy, little one, pint-size, pint-sized, shortie, shorty, smallness, tiny, tot). (various references) | |
Ukranian | виродок (bastard, deformity, degenerate, golliwog, monster, yellow dog). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trẻ con (babyish, childish, puerile), đứa trẻ (chit, chitty), đứa bé (chit, chitty). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BANTLING": bantlings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BANTLING" (pronounced 'Bant"ling'): Airling, Bardling, Birdling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Courtling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dearling, Decolling, Dilling, Doegling, Duckling, Dukeling, Dwarfling, Eanling, Earthling, Egling, Eightling, Faintling, Fatling, Fehling, Fiveling, fledgeling, Flockling, Fopling, foundling, Fourling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, Godling, gosling, Greekling, groundling, Gruntling, Homeling, Houseling, Housling, Jentling, Kidling, Kingling, Kitling, Lapling, Lordling, Manling, Meazling, Merling, Mestling, Monthling, Moonling, Morling, Mortling, Nerfling, Nursling, Oakling, Popeling, Porkling, Prickling, Princeling, Proudling, Punkling, Rashling, Reckling, Reedling, ridgeling, Rockling, sapling, Scabling, schilling, seedling, Self-repelling, Shaveling, Shearling, shilling, Shoreling, Shorling, Snobling, Softling, Sperling, Sportling, Spurling, squireling, Steerling, stripling, Surling, Sutling, Swainling, Tankling, Tanling, Timeling, Tireling, Troutling, Twinling, Vetchling, Warling, Westling, Whigling, Whimling, Whitling, Wiseling, Witling, Wolfling, Worldling, Wormling, Yeanling, Yeorling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: tabling. | |
-2 letters: anting, baling, baning, bating. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, binal, blain, giant, glint, liang, ligan, linga. | |
-4 letters: agin, alit, anil, anti, bail, bait, bang, bani, bint, blat, blin, gain, gait, gilt, glia, glib, gnat, lain, lang, lati, ling, linn, lint, nail, tail, tain, tali, tang, ting. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ait, alb, alt, ani, ant, bag, bal, ban, bat, big, bin, bit, gab, gal, gan, gat, gib, gin, git, inn, lab, lag, lat, lib, lin, lit, nab, nag, nan, nib, nil, nit, tab, tag, tan, til, tin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: bantlings. | |
+2 letters: blanketing, intangible, intangibly. | |
+3 letters: banteringly, benignantly, intangibles, langbeinite. | |
+4 letters: antigambling, antiglobulin, conglobating, conglobation, infibulating, langbeinites, obnubilating, outbalancing, sandblasting, tabernacling, tangibleness, unnegotiable. | |
+5 letters: antiglobulins, confabulating, conglobations, intangibility, nonnegotiable, nonobligatory. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4E 54 4C 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -. - .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A N T L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004E 0054 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635485446434841 |
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