Meaning of bantling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An infant or young child.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
2. A bastard-child.
   archaic
3. A brat.
   archaic, derogatory

Examples

“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!..."”

“"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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