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Greekling|ˈgriːklɪŋ|
[f. Greek n.1 + -ling, after L. Græculus dim. of Græcus.]
A little or insignificant Greek; a degenerate, contemptible Greek; in quot. 1880, one who contemptibly affects Græcisms.
1636B. Jonson Discov. (1640) 128 Which of the Greekelings durst ever give precepts to Demosthenes? 1667Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesie Dram. Wks. 1725 I. 30 The talkative Greeklings (as Ben Johnson calls them). 1850Blackie æschylus I. 331 'Tis one of the many tricks of that wisdom of words which the curious Greeklings sought..in the rough Gospel of St. Paul. 1861Q. Rev. CX. 472 The hack jeer of the upstarts of the time at all Greeks as ‘Greeklings’, and all philosophers as babblers. 1870Bryant Iliad I. ii. 46 Ye abject Greeklings, Greeks no longer. 1880F. A. March Spelling Reform 25 Ake also is restored and ache turned over to the Greeklings. 1881Times 6 Apr. 12/1 The commercially-minded little Greekling. |