/ · 1894 Brewer’s · B · Bantling
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A child. Mahn suggests the German, bänkling, a bastard. (Query, bandling, a little one in swaddling-clothes.)
· ·
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
· 
· 
· ·