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Definition: WITLING |
WITLINGNoun1. A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. |
Date "WITLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
Etymology: Witling \Wit"ling\, noun. [Wit -ling; compare to German witzling.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Noun: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais. |
Humorist | Zany, madcap; pickle-herring, witling, caricaturist, grimacier; persifleur. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: WITLING |
| English words defined with "WITLING": Wiseling, Witticaster. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
witling | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WITLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | тъпак (ass, blockhead, blunderhead, dimwit, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dunce, dunderhead, fool, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loon, lug, lummox, lunkhead, sheep's head, thick, tomnoddy, yo-yo), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, wittol, zany, zombie). (various references) | |
Czech | vtipálek (comedian, comic, joker, tease). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ostoba ember (ass, cluck, dummy, gander, goof, goosey-gander, jay, loggerhead, ninny). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itlingway.(various references) | |
Russian | остряк (punster, ramp). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tupan (lame brain, silly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "WITLING": witlings. (additional references) | |
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"WITLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gitlin, wirling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "WITLING" (pronounced 'Wit"ling'): Airling, Bantling, Bardling, Birdling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Courtling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dearling, Decolling, Dwarfling, Fiveling, fledgeling, Flockling, Fopling, foundling, Fourling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, gosling, groundling, Homeling, 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. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wilting. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-n-t-w" | |
-1 letter: tiling, wiling, witing. | |
-2 letters: glint. | |
-3 letters: gilt, inti, ling, lint, ting, twig, twin, wilt, wing. | |
-4 letters: gin, git, lin, lit, nil, nit, til, tin, wig, win, wit. | |
-5 letters: in, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-l-n-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twilling, twirling, wintling, witlings. | |
+2 letters: outwiling, twiddling, twillings, twinkling, whistling, whittling, wittingly. | |
+3 letters: outwilling, twinklings, whistlings, whittlings, willingest. | |
+4 letters: antiwhaling, outwhirling, playwriting, televiewing, unwittingly, wildcatting, witheringly, withholding. | |
+5 letters: bewitchingly, playwritings, walkingstick. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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