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In some senses, bantling is marked as archaic, derogatory, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
bantling
noun 3
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2VERB + BANTLING
cow-handed, enriched, let
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
An infant or young child.
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.
"You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!..."
2
A bastard-child.
3
A brat.
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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
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"You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!..."
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"As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered. "Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"
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