Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An effeminate or womanish man.
- noun A worthless person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
effeminate orwomanish man . - noun One who is
bad ; aworthless person. - noun A brood, group, or flock of
ducks .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Remember to die your eye brows the same color as your badling head AQ7
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Gobind's voice softened -- 'to abstain from pulling holy men by the beard, little badling.
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'Also to give reverence to thy teacher, and' -- Gobind's voice softened -- 'to abstain from pulling holy men by the beard, little badling.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"Good, Nigel - a nye of pheasants, even as it is a gaggle of geese or a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock or a wisp of snipe.
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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"Good, Nigel -- a nye of pheasants, even as it is a gaggle of geese or a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock or a wisp of snipe.
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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