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Bantling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An infant or young child. UK, archaic, dialectal

    "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."

  2. 2
    A bastard-child. archaic
  3. 3
    A brat. archaic, derogatory

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from band(s) (“swaddling clothes”) + -ling, or a modification of German Bänkling (“bastard-child”), equivalent to bench + -ling.

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