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- noun A small
weed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Getting close to the ground is the best way to distinguish a seedling from a weedling, and that's what I've set out to do today, "pull out the tares from amongst the wheat," so to speak.
Archive 2008-06-01 Gumbo Lily 2008
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Getting close to the ground is the best way to distinguish a seedling from a weedling, and that's what I've set out to do today, "pull out the tares from amongst the wheat," so to speak.
...down 'n' dirty Gumbo Lily 2008
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Look at you, Salma, weedling Tundra†™ s stats out of him.
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South's steady increase of power, her tightening grasp about the throat of government, and her buffets of threat to the North when a weedling palm failed to palsy fast enough.
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If you discover any hastiness in your temper, and find it apt to break out into rough and unguarded expressions, watch it narrowly, and endeavour to curb it; but let no complaisance, no weak desire of pleasing, no weedling, urge you to do that which discretion forbids; but persist and persevere in all that is right.
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant John Hamilton Moore 1772
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The money they have put away is weedling down to peanuts and if needed, will be worth less than what they invested.
unknown title 2008
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Look at you, Salma, weedling Tundra’s stats out of him.
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"Why, look at those nasty little feather-balls peedle-weedling; who can put up with it?
Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn George Manville Fenn 1870
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